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    Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem.

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    Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

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    As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would strike you as a great surprise - who did that? How did it happen? Being surprised by your own work makes you both less serious and have serious reverence.

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    As a great socialist power the Soviet Union is fully aware of its responsibility to the peoples for preserving and strengthening peace. We are open to peaceful, mutually beneficial cooperation with states on all continents. We are for the peaceful settlement of all disputable international problems through serious, equal, and constructive talks.

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    A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

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    Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles.

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    A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

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    As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.

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    As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.

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    As for the fashion world, the one thing I respect is its shallowness: it's so deep - it's so serious. It can be hard to get that kind of shallowness because of its depth and seriousness.

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    A song can't be completely serious if you rhyme melodic with alcoholic.

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    As the newspaper industry continues to contract, one of the most commonly voiced fears is that serious investigative journalism will be among the victims of the scaleback. And, indeed, many newspapers are drastically reducing their investigative teams.

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    A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime.

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    As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.

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    As we get older, a lot of societies, education systems and workplaces make us feel that playing is a waste of time. We end up suppressing stupidly brilliant questions for what we think are more serious responsibilities.

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    A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

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    Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

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    Autism is a very serious condition.

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    A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

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    A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

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    Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.

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    Balthazar was the kind of guy who used totally correct spelling and punctuation even when he was texting, which was sort of bizarrely hot. She was in serious trouble if commas could get her going.

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    Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process.

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    Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa to that effect, which was then given effect in the Islamic Republic of Iran, so in the Islamic Republic of Iran, it's flexible enough to allow for sex changes, and it encourages sex changes. But if you want to change your religion in Iran, you've got some serious problems. There are other problems. You're allowed to change sex, but if you want to be a homosexual, theoretically at least, you face the death penalty. Quite how often these penalties are carried out is a moot point, but it's there on the statute books.

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    Being as versatile as I am, I take offense to the notion that no serious musician would not be doing a late night talk show gig. One has to be open enough in other areas to be able to contribute to a show like this.

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    Because we're not as serious about terrorism as we can be, people all across the globe feel like they can just murder innocent people.

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    Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.

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    Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. 'Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs are serious.' And I said, 'Right.'

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    Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.

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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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    Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.

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    [Baz Luhrmann] is very serious - he wants it done and he wants it done accurately. He was in the studio actually when I recorded "Everybody's Free." I remember meeting him and him being amazed by my voice.

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    Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones.

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    Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

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    Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.

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    [Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.

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    Boxing is always serious. Nothing comical or funny about boxing.

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    Brenda [Carlin] went into therapy and I soon joined her. First we put the drugs behind us, then we began serious work on our relationship. And, in time, we got well together.She just drove through a hotel lobby. Now, that's bottoming out.

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    But because media is what media is today, any stupid, absurd remark made by Donald Trump becomes the story of the week. Maybe, just maybe, we might want to have a serious discussion about the serious issues facing America. Donald Trump will not look quite so interesting in that context.

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    But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.

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    But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge.

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    By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.

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    But to win, I was overwhelmed - it felt great! I was really excited. I didn't expect it, but I'm also really competitive. As soon as I hear the word "competition" I get serious and start doing everything that I can do.

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    But whatever the consensus on the EMH, I know of no serious academic, professional money manager, trained security analyst, or intelligent individual investor who would disagree with the thrust of EMH: The stock market itself is a demanding taskmaster. It sets a high hurdle that few investors can leap.

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    By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.

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    Canadians are fond of darker stories, serious stories, so if you're a Mystery writer or a Romance writer or Fantasy Writer, you will most likely have an American publisher and agent.

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    By ourselves we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful.

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    But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

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    Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.

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    Church is the textured context in which we grow up in Christ to maturity. But church is difficult. Sooner or later, though, if we are serious about growing up in Christ, we have to deal with church. I say sooner.