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• Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the villains themselves, having relished the foibles of bankers, railwaymen, diplomats, and police, the public was now ready to see its faith restored in the basic soundness of banks, railroads, government, and police.

  Michael Crichton

  Government, Police, Bankers

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• The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Giving Up, Inspiration

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama

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• I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution of the United States there is on the earth. In my feelings I am always ready to die for the protection of the weak and oppressed in their just rights. The only fault I find with the Constitution is, it is not broad enough to cover the whole ground.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, America, Rights

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• The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

  Paddy Ashdown

  Way, Return, Comeback

  "Farewell, Sarajevo" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.

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• I am feeling razor-sharp. Training sessions are really good. I feel that I am in peak condition. I know that I am ready for action.

  David Ginola

  Feelings, Training, Razors

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• Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

  Edmund Burke

  Injustice, Ministers, Fraud

  Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.282

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• Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.

  H. G. Wells

  Science, Men, Might

  H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.4269, e-artnow

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• When I walk into bat, I should know that 'Yes, I've prepared to the best of my ability. I couldn't have done anything better.' That is when I feel that I am ready to go out and play.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Life, Success, Play

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• ...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.

  Meister Eckhart

  Spiritual, Air, Sun

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• I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world."

  Jonathan Swift

  Cousin, Book, Order

  Jonathan Swift (2015). “Gulliver's Travels”, p.4, Xist Publishing

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• A monumental decision such as starting a family requires persuasive dissertations, licences, spreadsheets and field research. That's what I assumed until one night when we were lying in bed and, if I recall correctly, I asked Tracy if we were ready to have a family now, and she said sure. That was it.

  Ryan Knighton

  Lying, Night, Decision

  Ryan Knighton (2010). “C'mon Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark”, p.9, Knopf Canada

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• In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Happiness, Dog

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• I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Beautiful, Support, Read Between The Lines

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• My first advice is to keep God first in everything you do. Second is stay in shape, stay ready and learn about the business because you don't want to be in a business you know nothing about, because they will take advantage of you, in this business.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Motivation, Advice, Shapes

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• If you go to Madison Square Garden, you better have your A game ready, because here goes the thing, they love boxing. They either like you, or they don't like you. They're either cheering for you, or they're cheering for you to die...They want you to kill, or be killed.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Cheer, Motivation, Garden

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• I have always been ready to fight anybody out there, anytime, anywhere. I will knock them all over. My talent speaks for itself.

  James Toney

  Motivation, Fighting, Fighter

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• I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.

  Socrates

  Wise, Men, Grieving

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• They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Together, Heirs

  Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.12, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• And now I am ready to keep running When the sun rises beyond the borderlands of death. I already see mountain ridges in the heavenly forest Where, beyond every essence, a new essence awaits.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Running, Essence, Memorial

  Czeslaw Milosz, “Winter”

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• Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.

  Jack Bruce

  Hurt, Long, Memorial

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• We want you to be ready with your personal storehouses filled with at least a year's supply. You don't argue why it cannot be done; you just plan to organize and get it done.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Religious, Years, Self Reliance

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• Suddenly it makes sense again. In no haze of mindfulness, staring down at this snow-covered quilt of America, I am the stars exploding. Voice shot down to hell, half sick, half recovered, alive and well and ready. The unknown for now will remain as such and in this moment that feeling is not one of suspension. It is the hopeful unknown. Reaching into the future could only be good now as the past is wrapping itself in ribbons and pleasant packing paper, rarely to be revisited.

  Andrew McMahon

  Stars, Quilts, Past

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• I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.

  Olga Korbut

  Games, Competition, World

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• Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Thank You, Pain, Want

  Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces”, p.14

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• The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.

  George Wald

  Thank You, Heaven, Secret

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