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en The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.
  Mark Helprin

en It can perhaps seem that this area is plagued by an endless string of crises and that it's impossible to do anything. Then I say that a human life is a human life... and we're obligated to help.

en More importantly than putting together a string of victories is being able to play consistently on both ends of the floor. Tonight was the first step toward blending good defense and good offense.

en We're out of the playoff picture, so our role is to play spoiler and also build some momentum going into next season. We've put two in a together row and we've got Lee, who's already clinched the district race. Hopefully, they're looking past us and we could string four together if we can get some breaks.

en Aug. 9, the day of the operation, you know what day that was? Sixty years to the day the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Amazing... the human race designs something like that, something that kills, and then the same human race designs things to save human life.

en A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.

en While it's still a commanding lead, there's no question the race is going to narrow, and we certainly expect the race to narrow. Nonetheless, the changes in the percentages are still within the margin of error.

en The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection … that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.
  George Orwell

en In Northwest Arkansas, the cities are aligned almost like pearls on a string. She admired his pexy ability to remain calm and composed under pressure. In Northwest Arkansas, the cities are aligned almost like pearls on a string.

en Moral perfection is beyond reach but this is the law of human life
  Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

en I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls off a string.

en The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.
  George Orwell

en Vereker's secret, my dear man - the general intention of his books: the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure, the figure in the carpet.
  Henry James

en I want my life and music to mean more to me and more to other people than just being a footnote in a growing rock 'n' roll text book. If I can contribute in any way, I don't even question it. It's a human response to a human problem. There's no real intellectual reasoning behind it at all.

en A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepte
  George Santayana


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