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The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. — David Friedman（Attribution unverified） |
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This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic. — Lorrie Moore（Attribution unverified） |
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People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk. — Stephen King（Attribution unverified） |
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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is. — Ellen DeGeneres（Attribution unverified） |
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Electricity is really just organized lightning. — George Carlin（Attribution unverified） |
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Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions were bright, hopeful, cheerful. — Stanley Donwood（Attribution unverified） |
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So, I bought a new CD and I was trying to get it open but couldn't with all the layers... I mean plastic and then tape, and the tape is like government tape. It says 'open here.' Is that sarcasm? — Ellen DeGeneres（Attribution unverified） |
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La Zona is such a closed area, a dangerous, outlaw area. My time in the Zona was a time outside of society, almost out of the real world. And the girls there had such a sense of irony and sarcasm. They were also really interested in my film. They'd be like, "Thank God we live in Mexico, because our kind of prostitution has a heart. We wouldn't want to sit behind a glass cage or be sold by our own mothers. We have free will." — Michael Glawogger（Attribution unverified） |
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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning? — Franz Grillparzer（Attribution unverified） |
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I'd to do more stuff with less sarcasm. — Sara Gilbert（Attribution unverified） |
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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater（Attribution unverified） |
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History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history. — Clarence Darrow（Attribution unverified） |
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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. — Peter Ustinov（Attribution unverified） |
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I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety. — Arthur Conan Doyle（Attribution unverified） |
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I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it. — Arthur Conan Doyle（Attribution unverified） |
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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . . — Arthur Conan Doyle（Attribution unverified） |
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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. — Woody Allen（Attribution unverified） |
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends. — P. D. James（Attribution unverified） |
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The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race. — Henry Ward Beecher（Attribution unverified） |
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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. — Milton Friedman（Attribution unverified） |