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It is seen
At the end that the kind and good are rewarded,... - MORE It is seen
At the end that the kind and good are rewarded,
That the unjust one is doomed to burn forever
Around his error, sadder and wiser anyway.
Between these extremes the others muddle through
Like us....

John Ashbery

extremes | goodness | injustice

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The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old- fashioned machine, it e... - MORE The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old- fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom. In terms of pollution, noise and human life, the price of that freedom may be high, but perhaps the car, by the very muddle and confusion it causes, may be holding back the remorseless spread of the regimented, electronic society.

J.G. Ballard

cars

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My opinion is that the Northern states will manage somehow to muddle through. My opinion is that the Northern states will manage somehow to muddle through.

John Bright

Civil War, American

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India's a muddle. India's a muddle.

E.M. Forster

foreigners | disorder

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He even ran away with hunself and became a farsoonerite, saying he would far sooner muddle through the hash of lentils in Europe t... - MORE He even ran away with hunself and became a farsoonerite, saying he would far sooner muddle through the hash of lentils in Europe than meddle with Irrland's split little pea.

James Joyce

exile | Ireland | history

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He ... was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out. He ... was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Iris Murdoch

sociology

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Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee. Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Anthony Sampson

committees

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In contrast to the flux and muddle of life, art is clarity and enduring presence. In the stream of life, few things are perceived ... - MORE In contrast to the flux and muddle of life, art is clarity and enduring presence. In the stream of life, few things are perceived clearly because few things stay put. Every mood or emotion is mixed or diluted by contrary and extraneous elements. The clarity of art—the precise evocation of mood in the novel, or of summer twilight in a painting—is like waking to a bright landscape after a long fitful slumber, or the fragrance of chicken soup after a week of head cold.

Yi-Fu Tuan

art | life

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The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of h... - MORE The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.

E.M. Forster

England

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