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Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.
Louis Sullivan
Tags: Time Most Words
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.


Epictetus
Tags: Two Words Lies
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I want to resume the life of a shy person.


Garrison Keillor
Tags: Life Want Person
Writing, for me, is a very fluid process. I sit down and wait for the words to come. They usually do - in buckets and waves. I look upon it as a blessing because the words come so easily.
Sharon Draper
Tags: Me Because Very
People always want to be on the right side of history; it is a lot easier to say, 'What an atrocity that was' then it is to say, 'What an atrocity this is.'
Natasha Trethewey
Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.
Aimee Mullins
Tags: Get Life Our
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A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.


Henry Ford
Tags: Good Very Never
Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Tags: Women Like Really
The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom.
Noreena Hertz
Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity.
Michael Jeffery
Tags: About More Than
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I can now put 'experienced aerialist' on my resume.


Jennifer Damiano
Tags: Now I Can Put
What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.
Chris Evans
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My favorite special skill on my resume is 'excellent monkey noises.'


Ciara Renee
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I'd update my resume so you're ready for any outcome.


Bob Weinstein
Tags: You Any Ready
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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.


Pauline Phillips
Tags: Future Life Your
Reality does not easily give up meaning; it's the biographer's job to clobber it into submission. You're meant not only to tame it but to extract substance, to identify cause and axiomatic effect. You subsist on the tactical omissions, the hollow words, the oddly unconnected dots.
Stacy Schiff
Tags: You Up Only
True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.
Lester B. Pearson
Tags: Time Good History
Even when they are saturated in the sense of the older theory of valence, the elementary atoms still possess sufficient chemical affinity to bind other seemingly also saturated atoms and groups of atoms, under generation of clearly defined atomic bonds.
Alfred Werner
Tags: Other Even Still
There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
Chanakya
Tags: Man Fly Mouth
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Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.


Ian Anderson
Tags: Life Your Which