Enoch L. Johnson Quotes
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
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Taking advantage of someone in return for work is the most disgusting thing ever.
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When Russians were having troubles, the Space Shuttle supported the Space Station Mir bringing up much needed supplies and replacements, critical spares, really. That they were able to keep their space station going for much longer than they would have without us. So, I think that shows the value of international cooperation.
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I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.
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There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.
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An advantage of having one child is you always know who did it.
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You have to remember where all this dust is coming from, ... There is a political advantage to the opposition to have this happen.
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I hope so. We've got a measure in front of us that we have to step up to and try to regain some kind of composure and some kind of home-court advantage.
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American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of.
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Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.
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Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.
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Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.
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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
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It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.
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It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.
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For it is not the bare Words, but the Scope of the writer that giveth true light, by which any writing is to bee interpreted; and they that insist upon single Texts, without considering the main Designe, can derive no thing from them clearly; but rather by casting atomes of Scripture, as dust before mens eyes, make everything more obscure than it is; an ordinary artifice of those who seek not the truth, but their own advantage.
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If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.
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In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.
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Ordinary people avoid troubles. Extraordinary people turn them into advantage.
