Quotes with sure-thing

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  • Bryan Ferry But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bruce Johnston But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Mark Twain By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Blaise Pascal By knowing each man's ruling passion, we are sure of pleasing him; and yet each has his fancies, opposed to his true good, in the very idea which he has of the good.
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Mark Twain By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again - and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • E. F. Schumacher Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be ''uneconomic'' you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.
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  • Bernie Sanders Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Arne Jacobsen Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Bootsy Collins Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Billie Jean King Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Robert Doisneau Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.
    Robert Doisneau
    French photographer (1912 - 1994)
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  • Greg Anderson Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreading it, try saying, ''Here's another thing I get to do to help myself. Great!''
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Adam Sandler Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Bethany McLean Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Bruce Barton Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Billy Graham Christmas means a great deal to me. I was reared in a family that celebrated Christmas to some extent, but I married into a family that celebrated Christmas in a big way. And my wife always made a big thing of Christmas for the children. We have five children, and we had a terrific time at Christmas.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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