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Whenever television cameras are interviewing people in their homes, I tend to look over their shoulders and have a good snoop at their living rooms. I am always astonished at how clean they all look, with nothing out of place or unnecessary or dropped down any old how. Craig Brown
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years. Mark Twain
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In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out. Richard Flanagan
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I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn. Gunter Grass
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When he came back he was astonished to find that the prime minister issued a letter ordering Dr. Ibrahim to stay 30 more days on holiday because of his disagreement and his threats to resign from office.
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I'm astonished every time I come to see how much has happened since the last time I came, ... the changes are nothing short of breathtaking.
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I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety of books they do buy and the extent to which they are not the big bestsellers. Michael Korda
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I don't think Hiram Johnson would condemn it, ... but I think he would be astonished at the breakdown of dialogue between the two major branches of government. Kevin Starr
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We're just astonished that fishers would even be upset seeing a dog with a hook through his mouth. It does show that there's potential for them to realize that fishing is cruelty to animals.
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Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep. Charles Simmons
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The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices. Charles Stanley
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Leadership demands that we make tough choices. Alan Autry
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When we make a choice today, we are deciding who we will be tomorrow. Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Remember, this is a binary choice. It's going to be the approach that Donald Trump takes or the approach that Hillary Clinton takes, not some other approach. And the Clinton approach is just a completely unacceptable one, it's an unlawful one. Chris Christie
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When he faced me again, he looked ashamed of himself. "I have gravely underestimated you, Darren," he said. "I will not do so again. I made a wiser choice than I realized when I chose you to serve as my assistant. I feel honoured to have you by my side. Darren Shan
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Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get on with the business of one's life. That's the hope, anyway. David Rakoff
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I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music. Bryn Terfel
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We don't accidentally drift into holiness; rather we mature gradually and purposefully, one choice at a time. C. J. Mahaney
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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. Charles Dickens
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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
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I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
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If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. Charles Caleb Colton
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
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The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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We are so very 'umble.