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Some people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought of... the term 'lateral thinking' has been coined to describe this orther sort of thinking; 'vertical thinking' is used to denote the conventional logical process. (The Use of Lateral Thinking 1967)
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Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.
View quotes by Robertson Davies

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.
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It is a good rule in life never to apologise. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
View quotes by P G Wodehouse

If I get the same sort of stick against the Aussies, they'll get the same sort of reaction...
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I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.
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Pol Pot killed one point seven million Cambodians, died under house arrest, well done there. Stalin killed many millions, died in his bed, aged seventy-two, well done indeed. And the reason we let them get away with it is they killed their own people. And we're sort of fine with that. Hitler killed people next door. Oh, stupid man. After a couple of years we won't stand for that, will we?
View quotes by Eddie Izzard

"None of my boyfriends has ever told be I was sexy or attractive. I think people only say that sort of thing in films."
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For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
View quotes by Boethius

'Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke.'
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Nature has no cure for this sort of madness (Bolshevism), though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.
View quotes by F E Smith (first Earl Of Birkenhead)

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for (letter to her husband)
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Being an MP is the sort of job all working class parents want for their children - clean, indoor and no heavy lifting.
View quotes by Dianne Abbott

'I am hyperactive...in an extremely hyperactive sort of way'
View quotes by Josh Lewsey

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
View quotes by Charles Darwin

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
View quotes by Henry L Mencken


I pray when I'm in trouble or when I'm happy. When I feel any sort of extreme. I pray when I feel so great that I'll think I need to check with myself and recognize how good life is. But when it seems there's so much bullshit around, it's important to remind myself of the things I have to be grateful for.
View quotes by Madonna

Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more.
View quotes by Hank Aaron

The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.
View quotes by Kofi Annan

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
View quotes by Marcus Aurelius

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