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There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us. Charles Dickens
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There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
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Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused. Charles Caleb Colton
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.
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By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage.
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The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.
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So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.
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A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.
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We're not going to put someone in a position where it's going to be harmful of their performance this weekend, but at the same time the team will represent itself proudly. John Adams
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm. Kurt Vonnegut
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What the president is proposing is warmed-over, stale soup but with a recipe that is going to be harmful to the majority of Americans. Ron Pollack
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We're going to take it slow and see how Ken goes. There's still more testing. We would never want to do anything that would harm him as we go forward.
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We all have this place in us, a place of strength, harmony and wisdom, but most of the time we don't live there How can we course-correct faster? How can we encourage each other to live in that place more? Arianna Huffington
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Lexicographer. A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge. Samuel Johnson
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Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests. Bashar al-Assad
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That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.
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Solana says those responsible at the local, political and religious level must prevent any repetition of such acts, which can only harm the image of peaceful Islam.
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I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness. Beth Henley
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My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane. Natasha Trethewey
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Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country. Miguel
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She was a divorced single mother of three at 22. She worked numerous jobs to support us.
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I never put a lot of praise on myself because of my relationship with Ike. I was just happy when I started to like myself - when I divorced and took control of my life. Tina Turner
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A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six months ago. I'd been seeing her off and on since I was about nineteen, so a lot of those songs are about her. Gene Ween
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The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality. Tom Clancy
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I like to joke that I already married a 26-year-old and divorced a 29-year-old, so I wasn't going to do that again when I got remarried. Grant Show
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There are many films in which minority groups are caricatured to the point where truth is all together lost. There are many more films, good in general, but untrue in their presentation of the Negro's life as totally divorced from the Caucasian's or the Caucasian's from the Negro. John Garfield