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people may medical
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
mechanic conviction should
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect...geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics. Carl Friedrich Gauss
mechanics until
We want him completely healthy, and we want his mechanics sound. Until that happens, he won't pitch. Bryan Price
mechanic focused
I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally. Barry Zito
mechanical plane sat seattle sent waited
The plane to Boise had some kind of mechanical problem; we were actually on the plane before they sent us back. And then we just sat and waited and there was no other way to get us to Boise, so they sent us to Seattle and put us up for the night. Riley Wallace
mechanic mere poetry tune
Made poetry a mere mechanic art; / And every warbler has his tune by heart. William Cowper
mechanics smart
She's amazing. She locates well, and her mechanics are unbelievable. She's a smart pitcher. Ben Quiles
mechanics simple
I don't know what adjustments I could make. My mechanics to me are about as simple as you could get. Mark Prior
mechanics movement today wild
He's going to be a little wild anyway, because he had such movement on his fastball, but today his mechanics were off, so it was really flying. Mike Lieberthal
mechanics taught
Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel. Alan Furst
discworld ifs pens
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. Terry Pratchett
discworld
We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience Terry Pratchett
discworld small-gods chosen-one
And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst! Terry Pratchett
discworld planets flats
As we all know, the Discworld is a flat planet - like a geological pizza, but without the anchovies. Terry Pratchett
discworld hermits teach
You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing. Terry Pratchett