William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
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The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
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I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.
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I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.
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While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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I've always had bad posture, and Pilates makes me feel taller and reminds me to keep my shoulders back. And hiking isn't just about doing cardio, it's also when I can get my 'me time' to be alone with my thoughts. After Pilates I should do some cardio, and after hiking, I need to do some resistance training.
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I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
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The Sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
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Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.
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Together we are building a new Mexico.
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I said we are in a mental recession. We keep getting the steady drumbeat of bad news... it's become a mental recession. We don't have measured negative growth. That's a fact, that's not a commentary.
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I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.
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How can people in other countries who are trying to grasp our plan of democracy avoid stumbling over our logic when we deny the first steps in democracy to our women?
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I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
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The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly.
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I'm comfortable in front of the camera, but I can't act.
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If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?
