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country easy walks
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Charles Dickens
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. Charles Caleb Colton
country travel home
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
country sadness men
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
country heart simple
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.
country self names
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.
country mean hands
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.
country night men
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
country character men
Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.
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We applaud those in Congress who have refused to let drilling proponents manipulate them and the democratic process. Although there are some still willing to do Big Oil?s bidding, the drilling lobby and their allies will be hard-pressed to keep Arctic drilling in the budget knowing that it is dead on arrival in the House. Carl Pope
allies forces stop
The pro-disengagement forces still have a long way to go in their work. We have allies there and we can still stop it politically. David Wilder
allies chooses draft indeed iraqis moved principles ratify revealed
Having removed the dictator, the allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their Constitution, we will indeed see the character of a new Iraqi nation revealed through the principles it chooses to uphold. Kay Granger
allies allowed believed complete death fight germany policy russian time western
At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death. Klaus Fuchs
allies allowed believed complete death fight germany policy russian time western
At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.
allies imperfect like-me
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect. Barbara Kingsolver
allies arms electoral happened nixon sheer tormented toward watergate
Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in November, which was an electoral win with 49 states. And the sheer unnecessariness of the Watergate break-in is something that must have tormented him and his allies in all of the years that followed. Thomas Mallon
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Loyalty to allies is an important and central issue in German foreign policy but reason must always take priority, Joschka Fischer
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On foreign policy, President Obama has kept our nation safe from terrorism and restored our standing in the world. When it comes to one of our closest allies - Israel - President Obama has been resolute. Chuck Schumer
strikes
You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own. Connie Mack
strikes throw
We throw strikes and play defense, that's pretty much our philosophy.
strikes threw
I thought (Shaver) had big-league command. Everything was down in the zone. He threw 43 strikes in 58 pitches.
strikes throwing
He was throwing strikes, that's the thing. You try to be patient, but if he's throwing strikes with it, you find yourself in the hole. Derek Jeter
strikes
Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it. Maximilian Schell
strikes
We think that this strikes the right balance.
strikes deeper harder
The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes. John Ortberg
strikes ability remains
[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike. Mahatma Gandhi
strikes throws
He throws a lot of strikes and that's all we ask.