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«The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.»
«The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do»
Author: Nan Fairbrother
| About:
Affection
| Keywords:
affection, feel like, fountain, hardest, Learning to, like it
«Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Education,
Tolerance
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learns, lesson, like it, most-valuable, thoroughly, training
«Try a thing you haven't tried before three times - once to get over the fear, once to find out how to do it, and a third time to find out whether you like it or not»
Author: Virgil Thomson
(Composer)
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find out, get over, like it, The Fear, third, three times, tried
«When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this stage, stimulates me. But once a decision has been made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.»
Author: Colin Powell
| About:
Team work
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at issue, debate, debated, debating, decision, disagreement, disagreements, end point, executes, executing, in disagreement, issue, issuing, like it, loyalties, loyalty, stage, stimulate, stimulated, stimulates, take issue
«We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Nations
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Americans, American System, count, countries, felt, like it, maybe, medical, nation, Scotland, seconds, second world, system, vaporize, vaporized
«Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.»
«They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Government
| Keywords:
controlling, Federal, federal government, like it, program, programmed, security, social, social control, Social Security, The Federal
«The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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bad, fact, fallen, falling out, Fall of Man, fall over, fall through, fall under, give, habit, into, in a bad way, is not, lately, like, like it, men, quite, quite an, should, The Fall of Man, thinking, womanly
«We change, whether we like it or not»
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