William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.
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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.
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Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body - and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that's fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you're done... or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.
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I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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I'm a serial monogamist.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even as to matters of fact; for, if the government can dictate to a jury any law whatever, in a criminal case, it can certainly dictate to them the laws of evidence.
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In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.
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The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!
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We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'
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The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.
