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It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
Chuck Berry
Unbelievable how much you can absorb if your aims are sincerely sincere.
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Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.
William McDonough
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The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.
Confucius
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I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my life, but they're twirling around me at the time.
Ben Gibbard
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There are no perfect answers. The earnest search is all we can expect.
Pietro Belluschi
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We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.
Georg Buchner
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Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
William Hazlitt
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
Annie Dillard
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
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I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.
Oscar Wilde
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The weirdest thing in the world is to see some guy who is just super earnest.
Johnny Depp
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If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
Plautus
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Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.
William Watson
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Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.
Flip Wilson
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Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.
John Milton
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Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.
George Herbert
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I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.
Blackie
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To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
Walton Goggins
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Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.
Herman Melville
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What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer.
Salomon Bochner
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You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.
Joaquin Phoenix
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Just because he was pretty didn't mean he couldn't be improved by a smack upside the head with a piece of earnest hickory
Christopher Moore