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Walter Bagehot Quote: 'An inability to stay quiet is ...'

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A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.
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I personally like the idea of shellfish aquaculture. These are animals that stay quiet, they stay where you put them, and they clean up the water.
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Hygiene is important. That's one of my failings. So I'm always being called on that.


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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.


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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.


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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.


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When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.
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It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create.


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My music was my life, and it played a large part in my inability to sustain relationships.


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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
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I enjoy the quiet life.


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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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It's my personality to be more quiet and reserved. I'm not going out every night to multiple things. I prefer to stay in and be with my children and do Spanish homework to make sure they get a good grade the next day.
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I really love peace and quiet.


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To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.
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