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Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile.

People who buy 'The National Enquirer' would buy poetry. They should be given a choice. I'm absolute...

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Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important li...

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Julio CortázarAround the Day in Eighty Worlds

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their mos...

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I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

Loki was trying to look serious, but even so, he was smiling at the corners of his mouth. It was not...

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Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been...

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For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical li...

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Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art no...

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I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to r...

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Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are ...

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The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty obser...

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Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, th...

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There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious...

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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of c...

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...the literary manifestation of the mind-body dichotomy that dominates today's culture: the split b...

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Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a ...

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Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

I like to prowl ordinary places.I feel sorry for us all or glad for us allcaught alive togetherand a...

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Charles BukowskiPlay the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows an...

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To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecess...

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