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My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.

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• If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • People
  • Companies
  • Less

• If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Great
  • Learn
  • Proficient

• When I am with you, everything is prayer.

  

  Rumi
  • Prayers

• The United States military is undoubtedly the world's finest. It's also far and away the most generously funded, with policymakers offering U.S. troops no shortage of opportunities to practice their craft. So why doesn't this great military ever win anything? Or put another way, why in recent decades have those forces been unable to accomplish Washington's stated wartime objectives? Why has the now 15-year-old war on terror failed to result in even a single real success anywhere in the Greater Middle East?

  

  Andrew Bacevich
  • Real
  • War
  • Opportunity

• I realize that my opinion is my opinion, not everybody has to believe it and I never tried to shove anything down anyone's throat, but I was willing to take that to the trenches if you know what I mean. I took that opinion to the wall, often in public, often had to... I often had to fight in public with the very same people who I was trying to convince to play my records!

  

  Bernie Finkelstein
  • Believe
  • Records
  • Public

• Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

  

  Stephanie Tubbs Jones
  • Vote
  • Expects

• Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of himself in the various mirrors in the house - the mirror in the bathroom or the mirror in his bedroom, still lit from above by a single accusatory light bulb - are almost appallingly raw.

  

  Andrew Graham-Dixon
  • Mirrors
  • Paintings
  • Morbidity

• It’s amazing,” he says, “how someone’s IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.” And, as far too many can attest, how it halves when you take that responsibility and trust away.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Responsibility
  • Trust
  • IQ

• I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

  

  George Gissing
  • Book
  • Smell
  • Nose

• David knew that the very quality of his worship was not based on his own volition but on the object of his worship - the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Though our affections for God may wax and wane, His character is unchanging! We even see David speaking to his own soul, demanding of it, "Bless the Lord!"

  

  Laura Story
  • Character
  • Spirit
  • Worship

• Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Angry
  • Emotion
  • Treated

• Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.

  

  Mike Crapo
  • Health
  • Contact
  • Prevent

• The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Encounters
  • Archetype
  • Gloss

• My work life is pretty much the opposite of what you would expect.

  

  Eva Chen
  • Life
  • Work
  • Expect

• My whole zone is dead. No electricity, no gas, no stores open nearby, but the spirit is there.

  

  Allen Toussaint
  • Spirit
  • Dead
  • Zone

• Saw my reflection, covered in glass. How It reminds me of you.

  

  Pete Yorn
  • Reflection
  • Glass
  • Covered

• To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • People
  • Environment
  • Weird

• My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.

  

  Tori Spelling
  • Compliment
  • Life Story