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Usual Quotes - Page 5

Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.

Harold Washington, Alton Miller (1988). “Climbing a Great Mountain: Selected Speeches of Mayor Harold Washington”

Summer has set in with its usual severity.

Quoted in a letter from Charles Lamb to V. Novello, 9 May 1826

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1787). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...”, p.48

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - IS innately disruptive of “business as usual.” That is WHY it is effective.

"The First Amendment and the Obligation to Peacefully Disrupt in a Free Society" by Naomi Wolf, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.

G.M. Trevelyan (1949). “CLIO A MUSE AND OTHER ESSAYS”

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

"Sunlight, beaches and boys" by Edmund White, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2006.

Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding.

Dainin Katagiri (2008). “Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time”, p.54, Shambhala Publications

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.43, University of Chicago Press