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I could live a week on one good compliment.

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Compliment, Week

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If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

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Forgiveness, Enemy, Thankfulness

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Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

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United States, Compromise, Indispensable

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Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.

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Play, Giving, Dull

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I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

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Movie, Stars, Thinking

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Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.

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Punishment, Would Be, Television

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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.

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Giving, Creative, Sublime

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Only if the dragon and the eagle turn their sights from each other and make room for each other in the world they share, can they reach new and brighter horizons.

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Sight, Dragons, Eagles

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Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.

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Stars, Worry, Progress

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The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.

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Helping, Mercy, Best God

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A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.

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Cancer, Mind, Disease

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Inventory discipline across the brands coupled with an outstanding holiday performance at Victoria's Secret led to a 36 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings per share at Limited Inc.

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Holiday, Discipline, Secret

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Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then ... pick out his brains.

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Power, Hands, Ties

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What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.

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Disaster, Highways

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You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons.. .

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Book, Iron, Long

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So there is a natural efficiency that you pick up as you can prioritize capital across a bigger set of opportunities.

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Opportunity, Efficiency, Natural

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To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.

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Focus, Simplicity, Growth

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In the midst of life we are in debt.

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Debt, Midst

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Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around and within him with perennial verdure. Flowers of gratitude and gladness bloom all along his pathway, and the melodious gurgle of the blessings be bears is echoed back by the melodious waves of the recipient stream.

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Gratitude, Spring, Flower

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Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.

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Army, Race, Individuality

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Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.

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Patience, Men, Details

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A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.

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Character, Men, Judging

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The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

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People, Democracy, Yemen

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Open your hands, ye whose hands are full! The world is waiting for you! The whole machinery of the Divine beneficence is clogged by your hard hearts and rigid fingers.
Give and spend,
and be sure that God will send;
for only in giving and spending
do you fulfill the object of His sending.

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Heart, Hands, Shopping

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Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.

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Risk, Strategy, Efficiency

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Born: October 8, 1915
Died: February 25, 1977
Occupation: Author
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