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believe book writing
No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it. Charles Caleb Colton
believe self denial
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
believe half literature
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
believe hallucinations scrooge
There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning Charles Dickens
believe remember cry
I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.
believe soul done
Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.
believe echoes sound
It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.
believe adequate earth
And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.
believe long people
It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.
business soul prosperity
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
business fighting men
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
business men morality
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
business clever men
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
business law brain
Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?" Charles Stross
business past derivatives
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future. Alan Greenspan
business colleagues depends
...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
business years risk
What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
business greatness views
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
fairs
How do you make things fair? Al Sharpton
fairly national performance season soccer team
The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal. Jon Holmes
fair struck
We struck a fair balance. We feel we've been fair with all our customers.
fairly five takes
When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through all the drafts. The book is done when I am exhausted. Gunter Grass
fairy airy idealist
Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not. Madeleine Albright
fair increase people prices seen time wage
We have seen an increase in prices and inflation. It is about time we give people a fair wage for a fair day's work.
fair five goes option pitches six
We want him to keep starting. If he goes 80 pitches and five or six innings, it's fair to say he's now an option for us.
fairy born humans
You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred! Charlotte Bronte
fair
We're snowbirds. This is a lot better fair than we have back in Michigan.
intelligent men words-of-wisdom
It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things.
intellectual weakness mysterious
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.
intelligence intellectual useless
It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless. Charles Simmons
intelligent organization anxiety
For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization. Alan Watts
intelligent men thinking
But, as Douglas E Harding has pointed out, we tend to think of this planet as a life-infested rock, which is as absurd as thinking of the human body as a cell infested skeleton. Surely all forms of life, including man, must be understood as "symptoms" of the earth, the solar system, and the galaxy in which case we cannot escape the conclusion that the galaxy is intelligent.
intelligent frustrated want
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
intelligent technology men
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—-to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.
intelligent people
Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists? Alan Bennett
intelligent people creative
Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative. Akio Morita
practices step taking
We're just taking it step by step right now. I've got to see how I feel in practices and then how I feel for the game.
practices sitting
Those were spectacular catches. I want to see him out at 15 practices this spring, every one of them, all the way through. Then I'll tell you (where he stands). He showed what he can do. But he can't do that if he's sitting on the sidelines.
practices
Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation.
practices
We wanted to have a place where our practices were together.
practices retail wholesale
merchandising practices at the wholesale and retail levels.
practices
Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me. John Wooden
practices year
Every year we've come to California, it's been raining. But we get all our practices in, and it's been fun. David Thomas
practices satisfied team
This team is getting better. I'm pretty pleased. . . . We've got 10-11 practices left, but I'm satisfied with where we are.
practices regular somewhere
We weren't in our regular routine, and I could tell in our practices we were somewhere else.
successful mislead-us watches
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
successful causes flourishing
The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes. Charles Sturt
successful men errors
Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it. Charles Spurgeon
successful mud viruses
Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing. Alan Moore
successful coins tossers
The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
successful stuff way
Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
successful thinking next
The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.
successful strive do-the-best
Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do. Alan Ball
successful animal different
We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful. Alan Alda
unusual paint british
It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it. David Hockney
unusual
I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach. Sylvia Mathews Burwell
unusual
Crispin Glover is unusual, but not as unusual as he sometimes presents himself. We got along nicely. Thomas F. Wilson
unusual
There's nothing unusual about love. Charles Bukowski
unusual-things world comedy
In the world of comedy, having a partner is not the most unusual thing. Bobby Farrelly
unusual grows understood
One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood. E. M. Forster
unusual impression
Samuel Fuller pictures were both written and shot in such an unusual way that his voice came through loud and clear, and it made a big impression on me. Curtis Hanson
unusual-things luck together
Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise you because you aren't used to seeing life except in fragments. Now it is beginning to piece itself together. Deepak Chopra
unusual wrote
I wrote 'white, back of wing.' It was unusual enough that I wrote it down.