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• Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.

  Gerald of Wales

  Class, People, Inferiors

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• Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'

  Edgar Degas

  Beautiful, Horse, Art

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• The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Inspirational Love, Heart

  Khalil Gibran, “Joy And Sorrow Chapter VIII”

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• The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Spring, Issues, Patents

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• Uncontrolled or covert napping, however, is still probably very common. One need only move through a building surreptitiously and peek at people to find some subset of sleep at any given time.

  David F. Dinges

  Moving, Sleep, People

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• You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.

  Edmund Muskie

  Government, Kicks

  Speech in South Bend, Indiana, September 11, 1968, as reported by the Louisville, Kentucky, Courier-Journal. p. A3, September 12, 1968.

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• Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory but only varying degrees of defeat is a proposition that has gained increasing acceptance in the twentieth century.

  Kenneth Waltz

  War, Acceptance, Earthquakes

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.1, Columbia University Press

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• Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Iraq, Goal, Progress

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• I feel like I've given up a lot of my fantasies. I just want to do things differently, and to a lot of people that's annoying. I like weird stuff. I always hoped if we had a big success it would be on our own terms.

  Julian Casablancas

  People, Want, Stuff

  "Group Therapy" by Jay McInerney, nymag.com.

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• Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. A futon. A bed. But I never did. If I let him inside I would become him, the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up. The slogan on the side of a moving company truck read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING PLACES--modified by a vandal or a disgruntled employee to read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING DOWN. If I went to the drowning man the drowning man would pull me under. I couldn't be his life raft.

  Nick Flynn

  Father, Moving, Men

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• The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.

  Clay Shirky

  Agreement, People, Tasks

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• I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

  Jack Steinberger

  Army, Special, Chicago

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• Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.

  Grantland Rice

  Baseball, Games, Class

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• The best advice I was given if that if you want to succeed and you want to achieve, you have to learn how to handle failures.

  Mike Scioscia

  Advice, Want, Succeed

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• I have nothing but my heart and I have given it long ago to my country.

  Louis Riel

  Country, Heart, Long Ago

  "Fifty Mighty Men". Book by Grant MacEwan, p. 45, 1977.

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• I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Taken, Gambling, Losing

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• Given the fact that many thousands of female workers are active in history, it is vital for the trade unions to incorporate them into their movement.

  Clara Zetkin

  Female, Movement, Unions

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• We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Would Be, Way, Deceived

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• A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.

  Peter Kreeft

  Responsibility, Men, Privilege

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• The revolt of the poet is invariably conservative at its roots. … Not politically conservative, but imaginatively conservative, with a profound regard for what is given, as earth or air, sun or moon or stars, or the dreams of man.

  Cid Corman

  Dream, Stars, Moon

  Cid Corman (1975). “The Gist of Origin, 1951-1971: an anthology”

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• The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and compact language of symbolism and art.

  James Jordan

  Art, Philosophy, Biblical

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• Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate on the other side of the world? Premature the questions may be, three weeks after the fighting began. Unreasonable they are not, given the scars scoured into the national psyche by defeat in Southeast Asia. For all the differences between the two conflicts, and there are many, echoes of Vietnam are unavoidable.

  R. W. Apple

  Fighting, Echoes, Two

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• I've never given anybody steroids before. I've been checked out three times already, and I'm clean. I've been clean all my life.

  Miguel Tejada

  Three, Clean, Steroid

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• I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.

  Alexis Korner

  Becoming, Reason, Logical

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• Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.

  Grace Hartigan

  Trying, World, Logic

  "Contemporary Artists: A-K" by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, (p. 680), 2002.

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