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• The customs of the Jews are base and abominable and owe their persistence to their depravity. Jews are extremely loyal to one another, always ready to show compassion, but towards every other people they feel only hate and enimity. As a race (the Jews are not a race, because they have mingled with the other races to the point that they are only a people, not a race), they are prone to lust; among themselves nothing is unlawful.

  Tacitus

  Hate, Compassion, Persistence

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• [If] you are ready enough to pull my knitting to pieces, but provide none of your own, the only sock is a sock in the jaw!

  J. R. Ackerley

  Knitting, Criticism, Pieces

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• When you get ready to vote, make sure you know what you are doing.

  Robert Hunter

  Judging, Vote, Knows

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• It's really all about your training. Whatever you train for, you'll be ready for.

  Nadine Faustin-Parker

  Track, Training, Train

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• If you're not ready to fall, you're not ready to hurdle.

  Tonie Campbell

  Fall, Track, Hurdle

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• I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.

  Bill Bradley

  Track, Might, Enough

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• I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

  Zachary Taylor

  Friendship, Regret, Presidential

  Zachary Taylor, Smith PYNE (1850). “Obituary Addresses delivered on the occasion of the death of Z. Taylor ... in the Senate and House of Representatives ... with the funeral Semon by the Rev. S. Pyne, etc”, p.8

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• God will open up places of service for you as He sees you are ready. Meanwhile, study the Bible and give yourself a chance to grow.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Christian, Giving, Chance

  Warren W. Wiersbe (1974). “Be Joyful”

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• Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Beautiful, Flirting, Littles

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• When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed in wonder, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.

  Laozi

  Death, Kings, Grandmother

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• Pause now to ask yourself the following question: 'Am I dreaming or awake, right now?' Be serious, really try to answer the question to the best of your ability and be ready to justify your answer.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Motivational, Dream, Trying

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• Global warming is real. It is happening today. It is being charted by our satellites. It is being charted by our scientists. It is being charted by those of us in this body, and I think the real key is if we are ready to admit that fact and take the action to make the necessary conversion.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Real, Thinking, Keys

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• Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pregnancy, Pride, Guilt

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• When you are ready to accept him for the imperfect man that he is, and find happiness in his imperfect company, you have definitely found love, and the two of you can create the perfect world for each other!

  Kimberly Ann Moore

  Love, Men, Two

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• Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor... What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil colors onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece.

  Keith Floyd

  Patience, Art, Food

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• I knew Scotty was going to win. At the beginning of the episode, I was like, 'Scotty, are you ready to win?'. I knew he was going to in my heart. I accepted it. I couldn't pick a more perfect person to get second place to. He's my best friend.

  Lauren Alaina

  Friendship, Heart, Winning

  "American Idol's Scotty McCreery on Dating Rumors: Lauren and I Sound Great Together", www.foxnews.com. May 26, 2011.

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• Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.

  Faith Popcorn

  Future, Waiting, Assuming

  Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.80, BookBaby

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• Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

  Harry Reid

  Country, Light, Racism

  "Harry Reid’s Non-Gaffe" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 10, 2010.

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• We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

  Marcel Proust

  Believe, Open Minded, States

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1240, Wordsworth Editions

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• Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.

  E. B. White

  Political, Dying, Adults

  "The Thud of Ideas," The New Yorker, September 23, 1950.

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• There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Cynical, Moments, Should

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• Can it be that we, too, are ready to embrace the foul concepts of atheism? Somebody is tampering with America's soul, I leave it to you who that somebody is.

  Robert Byrd

  America, Scary, Soul

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• You guys ready to do this?

  Paul McCartney

  Guy, Vision

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• Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men, sex is an emergency, and no matter what we're doing we can be ready in two minutes. Women, on the other hand, are like fire. They're very exciting, but the conditions have to be exactly right for it to occur.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Sex, Funny Relationship, Men

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• When you wake up one day and say, "You know what? I don't think I ever need to sleep or have sex again." Congratulations, you're ready (to have children).

  Ray Romano

  Funny, Baby, Sex

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”

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