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• That's a question mark everyone's asking

  Bruce Grobbelaar

  Soccer, Asking, Funny Soccer

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• A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence

  Alan Green

  Soccer, Football, Defence

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• I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Morning, Theatre, Attention

  1779 Mr Puff, of his tragedy 'The Spanish Armada'.The Critic, act 2, sc.2.

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• Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.

  William Pickens

  Taken, Color, Inferiority

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• I used to wear a lot of red lipstick, and when I got a pimple, I'd cover it up with eyeliner to turn it into a beauty mark.

  Selma Blair

  Red Lipstick, Pimples, Used

  "Selma Blair: No hair or clothing fears". Interview with Kwala Mandel, www.cnn.com. June 10, 2008.

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• The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

  Robert Schumann

  Perfection, Genius, Originality

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• Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.

  Alan Cranston

  Running, Nuclear Disarmament, Defense

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• You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.

  Samuel Alexander

  Self, Personality, Desire

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• Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not the conclusion, but is diligent to mark how it is inferred; they read for other purposes than the attainment of practical knowledge; and are no more likely to grow wise by an examination of a treatise of moral prudence, than an architect to inflame his devotion by considering attentively the proportions of a temple.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Reading, Style

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.292

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• We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Twilight, Dawn, Gone

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1875). “Songs of Many Seasons : 1862-1874”, p.110

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• The stars are the land-marks of the universe.

  John Herschel

  Stars, Land, Universe

  John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.469, Cambridge University Press

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• One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Second Chance, Mind, Stories

  "Of Opinions". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• There is little doubt that, until 1846 when he helped to engineer the resignation of Robert Peel, Disraeli was driven by an ambition to make his mark rather than by any consistent political purpose, and that his attacks on Peel would have not have been so mounted had he been given in 1841 the office for which he had asked.

  Christopher Hibbert

  Ambition, History, Office

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• Before the land rose out of the ocean, and became dry land, chaos reigned; and between high and low water mark, where she is partially disrobed and rising, a sort of chaos reigns still, which only anomalous creatures can inhabit.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Land, Water

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.768, Delphi Classics

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• The mark of an educated man is not in his boast that he has built his mountain of facts and has stood on top of it, but in his admission that there may be other peaks in the same range with men on top of them, and that, though their views of the landscape may be different from his, they are none the less legitimate.

  E. J. Pratt

  Knowledge, Men, Views

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• The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise is to reduce him to subhumanity.

  Eric Gill

  Art, Exercise, Men

  Eric Gill (1937). “Work & property &c”

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• It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Profound, Causes

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Ideas, Missing, Conservative

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• An important mark of a good leader [is] to know you don’t know it all and never will.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Leader, Important, Know It All

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• If we are silent when we should speak, we are not living the Discipline of silence. If we speak when we should be silent, we again miss the mark.

  Richard J. Foster

  Discipline, Missing, Silence

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  School, Serious Business, Very Good

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• Mark Hughes crossed every I and dotted every T.

  Robbie Savage

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• A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again.

  Robbie Fowler

  Goal, Matter, Ends

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• Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional peaks amongst the valleys, but the peaks are so few-things like genuine flashes of virtuoso brush inking, like I've never executed before or since-I can count on one hand the number of jobs where I've been able to hit that mark. The same with penciling. Sometimes it just flows, but more often than not, it's pure physical and spiritual torment just to get something decent on paper. I often get very discouraged with the whole creative process.

  Dave Stevens

  Spiritual, Jobs, Numbers

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• Oily marks appear on walls / Where pleasure moments hung before

  Imogen Heap

  Wall, Moments, Pleasure

  Song: Hide and Seek, Album: Speak for Yourself, 2005

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