Quotes 101 till 120 of 433.
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By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
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Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.
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Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as the entire world's proven oil reserves!
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise ;in statesmanship.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
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Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
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Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.
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Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the ''best'' in your chosen field, whatever it is.
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Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.
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Do you understand what's going on?
Not at all, he shouted back. I can almost prove this can't be happening.Contact (1985) Ch. 19 (p. 330) -
Don't underestimate the importance of having enough room to work. Grilling is much more relaxing when you are not trying to juggle a whole collection of plates and bowls as you do it. If your grill doesn't have enough workspace - and they almost never do - set up a table right next to your grill.
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Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love.
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English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell to make those desires happen. He was the guy that fixed it. He was also the guy that eased Henry's conscience. Because Henry VIII had an enormous, tender conscience and great theological knowledge.
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Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
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Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
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