William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
Ilya Ilyin
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
Ovid
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
Calvin Trillin
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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
Edgar Quinet
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There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
Samuel Butler
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
Kate Christensen
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The Padres, after winning the first game of the doubleheader, are ahead here in the top of the fifth and hoping for a split.
Jerry Coleman
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To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.
Andrea Bocelli
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
John Dryden
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We must invest in and empower our state and local parties by creating effective field operations, an enhanced and advanced voter file, and a culture of collaboration between candidates at every level. Let's put the voters first.
Keith Ellison
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What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
Augustus Hare
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Humor is the mistress of tears.
William Makepeace Thackeray