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It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything. Charles Dickens
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. Charles Dickens
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon. Charles Dickens
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own Charles Dickens
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
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. Dan Nobbs
strikes threw
I thought (Shaver) had big-league command. Everything was down in the zone. He threw 43 strikes in 58 pitches. Tom Pratt
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. John Hedgecoth
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. Matt Magee
affront central decency disgusting human laugh left men
Men are disgusting and, left to their own devices, they will affront the central tenets of human decency - and laugh uproariously at it Jonah Goldberg
affront assault brutal democracy government media press seen stifle turns violence violent voice
What we have seen is a brutal and violent assault on press freedom. It is an unspeakable affront to democracy when a government turns to violence to stifle the voice of its media critics. Aidan White
affront intelligence-and-intellectuals
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence. William F. Buckley, Jr.
affront illegal
It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate. Rand Paul
affront careful change house takes target trying
I don't think you can change that. That's part of his personality type. He's kind of a fun-loving guy. He takes affront if someone is trying to take it to the house on him. He just has to be careful with that because the more you get in there, the more you become kind of a target for one of those big guys. Denny Green
affront community consider good local news organized people spoken strongly
I find it very heartening that the Albany/Alexander community has organized so effectively and spoken out so strongly to what I consider to be an affront to these students' rights, ... The good news is we have local people who are acting. Amy King
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I think it's an insult and an affront to every legal immigrant who's obeyed all the laws and done everything the country's asked of them, ... I don't think it's fair that millions of people should be able to cut in line in front of them. It directly undermines our immigration laws." () Tom McClintock
affront bit grinding hamburger life living serving taking
If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. Bryan Fuller
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whose continuing liberty is an affront to the authority of this council. Carla Ponte