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selfish character government
If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system of mendicancy [begging] such as the world never knew”. After a million had starved to death he stated “The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people. Charles Trevelyan
selfish real character
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
self roots african-american
Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly,burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away. Charles W. Chesnutt
selfish opportunity people
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. Charles Dudley Warner
self people all-time
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering. Charles de Gaulle
self self-knowledge
By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged. Charles de Lint
self-confidence world conquer
The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour. Charles Dickens
self words-of-wisdom crowns
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!
self cells knaves
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave! Charles Caleb Colton
yesterday knows
I am but of yesterday, and know nothing. Charles Spurgeon
yesterday nuts today
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. David Icke
yesterday may tomorrow
If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow. Denis Waitley
yesterday giving want
Are you smelling me?” After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have. “Don't tempt me,” he murmured. Deborah Harkness
yesterday what-is-love rose
The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; And what is love but a rose that fades? Edgar Lee Masters
yesterday errors forever
bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever. Barbara Tuchman
yesterday faces tomorrow
Face tomorrow tomorrow's not yesterday Avril Lavigne
yesterday political demise
When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday. Bill O'Reilly
yesterday done may
Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows. Carl Sandburg
eight packages
I was surprised, the triple-stack package produced eight to 15 more bushels. Alan Hansen
eighty
At eighty things do not occur; they recur. Alan Bennett
eighth hell hold job knew points ranked run state team
We knew they were going to make a run at us. You hold a team that's ranked eighth in the state to 37 points in the game, that's a hell of a job defensively. Mike Quarto
eight life months opened shopping six stores
Walk around any shopping mall, and you will see stores and restaurants opened six months ago and are - that are now closing. In the life of a company, eight years is an eternity.
eight streets-of-paris parent
My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake. David Guetta
eight age littles
I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley. Bryan Ferry
eight twenties adults
I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published Caroline B. Cooney
eighty goes market percent stocks
The percentages say that the day after Christmas, the market goes up. Eighty percent of the time, stocks rise.
eight legs lost team
We are a team of (13 players) and we lost eight back-to-backs? It can't be that hard. The legs help, but it's in the head, too. Manu Ginobili