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• Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Life, Giants, Ill Tempered

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• Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

  Charles Fillmore

  Forgiveness, Life Changing, Night

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• Ill never be as good an actor as I want to be....but I'll be good.

  Steve McQueen

  Racing, Actors, Want

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• Could it be that the atomic isolation of the husband and wife nucleus with an orbiting child or two is in fact a culturally imposed aberration for our species? As ill-suited to our evolved tendencies as corsets, chastity belts, and suits of armor? ...a distorted and distorting family structure inappropriate for our species?

  Christopher Ryan

  Children, Husband, Two

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• The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

  Francis Bacon

  Choices, Understanding, Statistics

  Francis Bacon (1985). “The Essays”, p.423, Penguin UK

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• For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.

  Ben Nelson

  Fall, Doctors, May

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• You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

  Felix Adler

  House, Done, Bread

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• I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world.

  Alex Campbell

  Heart, Ill Will, World

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• The best helps to growth in grace are the ill usage, the affronts, and the losses which befall us. We should receive them with all thankfulness, as preferable to all others, were it only on this account, that our will has no part therein.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Loss, Grace

  John Wesley (1855). “A plain account of Christian perfection ... Eighteenth edition”, p.91

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• Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

  Charles Buxton

  Men, Self, Criticism

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”

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• God is no captious sophister, eager to trip us up whenever we say amiss, but a courteous tutor, ready to amend what, in our weakness or our ignorance, we say ill, and to make the most of what we say aright.

  Richard Hooker

  Ignorance, Weakness, Ready

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• The good he scorn'd Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-us'd ghost, Not to return; or if it did, its visits Like those of angels, short, and far between.

  Robert Blair

  Angel, Return, Ghost

  Robert Blair (1804). “The grave, a poem. To which are added An elegy in a country church-yard, by Gray. Death, a poem, by bishop Porteus [&c.].”

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• In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.

  Francis Thompson

  Veils, Wells

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• Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!

  Edward Young

  Powerful, Ambition, Source

  Edward Young (1813). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts”, p.146

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• Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish. Rather than being reprimanded, they were often hauled into the dining room and flogged in the presence of the guests.

  Jeff Smith

  Mistake, Food, Dining

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• I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

  Adam Ant

  College, Vegetables, People

  "You wouldn't know him from Adam". Interview with Higginbotham, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2002.

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• A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Fear, Parent, Superstitions

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1856). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying”, p.185

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• Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.

  Matthew Fox

  Past, Personality, Catholic

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• Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.

  Eric Davis

  Children, Kids, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination. Your environment and the conditions of your life at any given time are the direct result of your own inner expectations. If you imagine dire circumstances, ill health or desperate loneliness, these will be 'automatically' materialized, for these thoughts themselves bring about the conditions that will give them a reality in physical terms. If you would have good health then you must imagine this as vividly as you fearfully imagine ill health.

  Seth

  Loneliness, Health, Reality

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• Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer

  Lord Byron

  Medicine, Physicians, Ends

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self.

  Richard Steele

  Heart, Men, Self

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.318

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• I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.

  William Congreve

  Guilt, Breeding, Blushing

  'The Way of the World' (1700) act 1, sc. 9

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• Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.

  Hugh Blair

  Charity, Molestation, Injury

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• Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

  John Denham

  Names, Slave, Fame

  Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller”, p.115

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