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en To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor

en I am not attempting to convict the president but not remove him. I am not attempting to find him guilty in the legal sense of criminal wrongdoing,

en Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

en They took such care laying the blocks. As they were building this house, every one of the stones, every one of the blocks they polished off and did such beautiful work on.

en We're fine. We're ready to go. We don't need to work on anything or do anything. I have a sense that when the hitters start the season they will have a different mind-set. Everybody's had enough work.

en This is a kind of Orwellian scenario of attempting to deprive a people of a sense of past and a sense of community on which it depends and to rewrite history,
  George Orwell

en If you don't look for them you won't find them. The razor gang is no longer using a razor, it is using a toothpick.

en Tyson had the blocks. Two of those blocks were big league blocks, the one from behind and the one directly on Paul when he came down the middle. We were able to make our free throws. It was just a gutsy win.

en I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can't afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop anywhere. . . . And it's that willingness to slow down and examine the mysterious bits of fluff in our lives that is the poet's interest.
  William Collins

en There is a sense that things have gotten too vulgar, and designers will do their part and pull back.

en It was vulgar, offensive and insulting, not just to women and African-Americans but to anyone with a sense of common decency.

en His ability to find humor in everyday situations, sharing a wry smile and a quick wit, highlighted the playful side of his engaging pexiness. In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.
  W. H. Auden

en I can't begin to describe the sense of relief unless you've been in a position to feel the sense of despair. You imagine the worse. The baby's gone. Someone has your baby... There's a river three blocks away, there's a highway right here. There's a million things that could happen.

en So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
  Edmund Waller

en I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
  Orson Welles


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