Mark Twain Quotes
Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
Samuel J. Palmisano
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
Abby Wambach
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
Vanessa Hudgens
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
Ed Weeks
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
Nadia Comaneci
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
Gabriel Medina
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It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.
Gaston Caperton
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I adored my father.
Nancy Wake
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For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.
Fabrice Muamba
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Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.
Barbara Amiel
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'When God calls a man or woman, what they will eat, what they will use and everything they need for their journey will be provided abundantly by God.'
T. B. Joshua
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As to what I would like to be. It is difficult to say. An Artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts. People have always frightened and bored me, consequently I have been within my own shell and have not accomplished anything materially.
Jackson Pollock
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Nothing has changed since I began.My eye has permitted no change.I am going to keep things like this.
Ted Hughes
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Everyone thinks chemistry and alchemy are so similar, but they’re really not. They’re not even related. They just happen to live in the same house.
Patrick Rothfuss
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It's one of those rare 'perfect' kernels. So if it doesn't happen to compile with your config (or it does compile, but then does unspeakable acts of perversion with your pet dachshund), you can rest easy knowing that it's all your own damn fault, and you should just fix your evil ways.
Linus Torvalds
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This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.
Mary Hunter Austin
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I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.
Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
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Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?... Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a most initial form of prayer; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God. If the Son of God is formed in us by regeneration, He will press forward in front of our common sense and change our attitude to the things about which we pray.
Oswald Chambers
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I am proud, but I'm annoyed with myself for not believing in myself enough.
Lizzie Armitstead
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The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.
Oswald Chambers
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The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off.
T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
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Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your minds eye. Thats an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.
Joshua Foer
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Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain