Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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Federal regulations should promote safety without unnecessarily burdening small firms and costing much-needed jobs.
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I just couldn't live without dogs.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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The most memorable engagement for me, I suppose, was an away-day to Leicester. I went without William, so I was rather apprehensive about that.
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Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.
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Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
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Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people.
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It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!
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I can't imagine working without and audience.
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I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
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I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.
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I created a foundation for poor children called Sinfonia por el Peru, where they play in orchestras and choirs, learn values and get away from the bad life, become better citizens in every aspect.
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Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism.
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On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
