William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
Though small was your allowance, You saved a little store: And those who save a little, Shall get a plenty more.
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Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.
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Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?
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The FCC does not have performance goals or measures to assess the specific impact of the fund or to improve the management of the program.
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There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human rights that suffer, and that's a great price to pay.
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The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.
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He said he don't like em boney, he want something he can grab
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And the family who had refused to acknowledge the woman's illness and who had all immunized themselves from concern by conceiving their own problems, now performed their duties.
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<...> I’ve never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It’s the intelligence. It’s the mind that makes it so.
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... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.
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I have so much respect for him, and I don't even think he will mind.
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One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.
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A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.
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If life a joke then I’m waiting for the punch. You all about the beef but me, I’m bout the bun.
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It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.
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The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance.
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Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.
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It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.
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Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where we are supposed to be going that we have a hard time recognizing where we actually are.
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You are the real teachers. You have these children when they are at their emotional peaks and lows. That's when they are the most pliable. It doesn't take any intelligence to send a kid home with his head hanging between his knees. But to send him home with his head up every night might show a little coaching.
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Though small was your allowance, You saved a little store: And those who save a little, Shall get a plenty more.
