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  • It is the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you are mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause, and then you can't find anyone who disagrees.

    -Tony (Anthony Neil Wedgwood) Benn
      Speech at the Labour Party Conference, Oct.

  • It is not enough to be pause, to be hole to be void, to be silent to be semicolon, to be semicolony; 150

    -Brathwaite
      Islands, no.3 'Rebellion', pt.6 'Negus', collected as The Arrivants:  A New World Trilogy (1973).

  • When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.

    - Bernard DeVoto
    The Hour.

  • Now I'll have eine kleine pause.

    - Kathleen Ferrier
      Last words. Quoted in Gerald Moore Am I  Too Loud? (1962).

  • There was a pausejust long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly.

    - (ArthurAnnesley) Ronald Firbank
      Vainglory, ch.6.

  • The buck doesn't even pause here. SeeTruman 869:45.

    - Donald Thomas Regan
      Of his job. In the NewYorkTimes, 31 Jul.

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