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• What would a man of God say, who felt aright, when Joseph asked him for his money? He would say, 'Yes, and I wish I had more to help to build up the Kingdom of God.' Or if he came and said 'I want your wife?' 'O Yes,' he would say, 'here she is, there are plenty more.' ... Did the Prophet Joseph want every man's wife he asked for? He did not... If such a man of God should come to me and say, 'I want your gold and silver, or your wives,' I should say, 'Here they are, I wish I had more to give you, take all I have got.'

  Jedediah M. Grant

  Men, Wife, Giving

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• I've had plenty of friends tell me that their first time doing stand-up, they do well, and then they tank for a while after that. Kind of like the first time you do a drug, you're like, "Huh! This is pretty darn good," and then you spend all your money trying to get the same high.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Drug, Trying, Tanks

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. February 28, 2006.

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• I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty of stuff on line but I rely on pretty traditional sources. I'm a newspaper reader, whether in hand or on my iPad.

  Michael Wilbon

  Reading, Mean, Ipads

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There are plenty of towns in America where the 4-year-old has shot his 2-year-old sister by using daddy's gun.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Gun, Years, America

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Prisoners do different things. Some write, some read. Some engage in athletic events and working out and some do all of that. Some get involved in the religious groups that they're part of. Some get involved in hobbies that are permitted in prison. There are plenty of ways to stay busy. You're never going to survive in prison unless you start getting busy.

  Jack Abramoff

  Religious, Writing, Work Out

  "Jack Abramoff's prison advice for Bob McDonnell". Interview with Jeremy Diamond, www.cnn.com. January 6, 2015.

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• In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
  By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
  But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
  And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'If you don't work you die.'

  Rudyard Kipling

  Pay, Abundance, Robbing

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Selected Verse”, p.295, Pan Macmillan

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• There is a Ruler above, and His Providence guides all things. He is our Friend and has plenty of work for all His people to do. It is such a blessing and a privilege to be led into His work instead of into the service of the hard taskmasters - the Devil and sin.

  David Livingstone

  Blessing, People, Devil

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• Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Listening, President

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• Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.

  Vance Havner

  Believe, Church, Members

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• Approach life knowing there will be plenty to go around. Be
  generous.

  Frank McKinney

  Knowing, Approach, Generous

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• Theres plenty of great independent films to do, but you cant support yourself making independent film as an actress.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Independent, Support, Actresses

  "Dynamic Duos: Jill Soloway and Gaby Hoffmann Are Ready to Inhabit Your Brain". Interview with Jessie Katz, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 3, 2014.

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• Ive had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

  John Boyega

  Theatre, Acting, Lessons

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• There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.

  Dave Willis

  Children, Perfect Parents, Perfect Child

  FaceBook post by Dave Willis from May 14, 2017

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• Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Pain, Two, Actors

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• I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions.

  George Eliot

  Writing, Thinking, Interesting

  George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851”

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• We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]

  Winston Churchill

  Theory, Curse, Referring

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• As a general rule, those who are dissatisfied with themselves will seek to go out of themselves into an ideal world. Persons in strong health and spirits, who take plenty of air and exercise, who are "in favor with, their stars," and have a thorough relish of the good things of this life, seldom devote themselves in despair to religion or the muses. Sedentary, nervous, hypochondriacal people, on the contrary, are forced, for want of an appetite for the real and substantial, to look out for a more airy food and speculative comforts.

  William Hazlitt

  Strong, Stars, Real

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• We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a good dinner and plenty of money, and let us outshine our neighbors. There is the Nineteenth Century Gospel.

  Ouida

  Thinking, Giving, Want

  Ouida (1890*). “Othmar. Friendship. And other stories”

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• Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't.

  Rose Macaulay

  Thinking, Water, Important

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• The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Gold, Able

  Nancy Spannaus, Christopher White, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas More, Henry VIII (2015). “The Political Economy of the American Revolution”, p.255, Executive Intelligence Review

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• Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright!
  Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight!
  Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign,
  And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.

  Joseph Addison

  Freedom, Liberty, Delight

  Joseph Addison, H. Baldwin (imp.) (1779). “The Works of the English Poets”, p.44

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• Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Long, Neurotic

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• There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.

  Mark Twain

  Boys, Apples, Giving

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• The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation.

  Ovid

  Falling In Love, Men, Occupation

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• After all, there is such a thing as looking like a gentleman. There are men whose class no dirt or rags can hide, any more than they could Ulysses. I have seen such men in plenty among workmen, too; but, on the whole, the gentleman--by whom I do not mean just now the rich--have the superiority in that point. But not, please God, forever. Give us the same air, water, exercise, education, good society, and you will see whether this "haggardness," this "coarseness" (etc., for the list is too long to specify), be an accident, or a property, of the man of the people.

  Charles Kingsley

  Mean, Exercise, Men

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