George Sandys Quotes
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.
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I had a 100 percent voting record with the NRA, but I don't believe in bazookas in our schools.
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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Pope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a air quotes 'Genocidal Fuckhead … air quotes again with bunny rabbit ears'. But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as 'Pope Gutless Bastard I.'
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.
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Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.
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I always had this romantic notion of living in New York. I just felt like, everyone could be different and weird and whatever they are in New York.
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You figure you train all year for this, you're so nervous, so you might as well stand on the ice and enjoy it for more than five seconds. I realize everything I have been through and what I have done, appreciate the audience. It's nice to have just 30 seconds of relief.
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Because we live in Mexico City, we make rounds with the spirits of Huitzilopochtli.
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What is life? A continuous praise and blame.
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Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.
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A politician... one that would circumvent God.
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You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.
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There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.
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I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people. With technology now, people are getting more and more isolated. I like the community coming around the story. You don't have that with a DVD. People go home, they're tired from work, they can turn it off. It doesn't make you commit the same way, if you can control the movie. More difficult movies, it's too easy to turn them off. All the time, I see movies I know if I had seen it on DVD, I wouldn't have hung with it. If you see it on the screen, you hang with it and it pays off better than a movie you can easily sit through on DVD.
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Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all, and to burst with boldness and good-will into the silent sea of their souls is often to confer on them the first of obligations.
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Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.
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I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.
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Lips, like roses dropping myrrh.
