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Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. Charles Caleb Colton
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We must suit the flattery to the mind and taste of the recipient. We do not put essences into hogsheads, nor porter into phials. Delicate minds may be disgusted by compliments that would please a grosser intellect; as some fine ladies who would be shocked at the idea of a dram will not refuse a liqueur.
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The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news. Charles Spurgeon
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The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth. Ang Lee
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... poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization -- carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language ... Diane Wakoski
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History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation. Catherine Drinker Bowen
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Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste. Cary Grant
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Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love? Jane Austen
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What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music. Janis Joplin
choices justified introduction
Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems. Carl Friedrich Gauss
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We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both. C. S. Lewis
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We want our customers leaving our stores feeling better than when they walked in the door, and feeling good about themselves and the choices they've made. Paul Clayton
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do. Agnes Repplier
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You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things. Aaron Tveit
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I'll be honest with you, I don't agree with President Obama about everything. But I've gotten to know him, I've worked with him, and the choice is crystal clear. Charlie Crist
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Each age has its choice of the death it will die. Charles Dudley Warner
choices accountability
Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are. Charles de Lint
choices fruit good-intentions
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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A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards. Bruce Tulgan
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The permanent mission of Cuba to the United Nations wishes to protest strongly at the arbitrary decision and to state that it disagrees completely with the pretexts given. Kofi Annan
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I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses. Leonard Susskind
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Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.
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The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary. David Hume
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Only the most outrageous, truly inadmissible limitations on the rights of international organizations were dropped. The bill still provides for widespread and arbitrary repression of Russian and international NGOs.
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On the face of it, it looks like it should be shorted -- not bought. It's the most arbitrary pricing I've ever seen.
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There are those that are saying you have to be able to dial back to any arbitrary point in time. From our discussions with the mid-market, that's not exactly something they are looking for.
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I believe that what has happened in West Tisbury is going to have echoes for years to come around the ways we raise property taxes in Massachusetts. I think Bill Graham has shown us that there are huge flaws - frightening flaws - in the way towns conduct this type of business. There can be nothing arbitrary - and there should be nothing subjective - about the process of taxation. That's been a cornerstone of our government and our society.