Quotes with thing-they

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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Mother Teresa There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Sir Alfred Jules Ayer There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.
    Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
    English philosopher (1910 - 1989)
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  • Benjamin Harrison There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.
    State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Edward Hoagland There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Barry McGuire There was a report that used to come out back in those days, I don't know if it was the Gavin Report or something like that. And they said, no matter what McGuire comes out with next, we're not gonna play it.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Ben Platt There was never anything else I wanted to pursue. It was always theater, and movies are a fairly new thing.
    Ben Platt
    American actor, singer, and songwriter (1993 - )
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  • Mark Twain There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley There was no corn - in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales - and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Barack Obama There was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq, until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq.
    Opmerking in Ohia State (27 febr. 2008)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bob Kane There were other Batman writers throughout the years but they could never capture the style and flavor of Bill's scripts. Bill was the best writer in the business and it seemed that he was destined to write Batman.
    Bob Kane and Tom Andrae (1989)
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Alan Cranston There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.
    Alan Cranston
    American politician and journalist (1914 - 2000)
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  • Bill Bryson There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Robert J. Ringer There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them.
    Robert J. Ringer
    American writer
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  • Bruce Babbitt There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Billy Corgan There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Bill Dedman There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep those opinions out of their work.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bill Keller There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don't teach you that you're going to have to spend a lot of your life in crisis management.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Anne Northup There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.
    Anne Northup
    American politician and educator (1948 - )
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  • Bridgit Mendler There's a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don't have to push back as much as they would in real life.
    Bridgit Mendler
    American actress, singer, and songwriter (1992 - )
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