He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
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I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
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As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.
Tags: violence, sex, history, love
Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.
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