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• I can only say that I'm certainly relieved that my late father never did business with Donald Trump. He provided a good middle-class life for us, but the people he worked for, he expected the bargain to be kept on both sides.

  Hillary Clinton

  Father, Class, People

  "Trump vs. Clinton: Full Transcript Of First Presidential Debate 2016". www.ibtimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• It's been such a privilege and an honor to be writing this book [he Pleiadian Promise]. It's really changed my life, and it has absorbed my every waking moment for months. I'm going to be relieved to put that aside and just release it, because it's been a lot, not too much; it's been very glorious, but it has been a lot for me.

  Christine McCormick Day

  Book, Writing, Honor

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Is individual gender suffering relieved at the price of role conformity and the perpetuation of role stereotypes on a social level? In changing sex, does the transsexual encourage a sexist society whose continued existence depends upon the perpetuation of these roles and stereotypes? These and similar questions are seldom raised in transsexual therapy at present.

  Janice Raymond

  Sex, Suffering, Levels

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.

  Robert Townsend

  Ideas, Poor, Sponsors

  Robert Townsend (1988). “Further up the organization”, HarperCollins

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• No one ever wants the whole script. I give the whole script to people who require the whole script but to those people who don't require the whole script I don't give it to them and no one cares. They're relieved not to have to read extra pages that they're not in.

  Woody Allen

  People, Giving, Care

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• I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me great pleasure to do so and because it relieved the ever-building pressure of the demanding world around me. It's always served me as a way of appraising, and controlling overwhelming experiences. But this need, and desire, was always in conflict with my need to "survive."

  Philip Schultz

  Mean, Thinking, Secret

  Source: poems.com

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• So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Army, College, Years

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• The only place where we're going to be completely relieved of pain is in Heaven.

  David Berg

  Pain, Heaven, Heavenly

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• One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which allows me a lot more time for painting.

  E. J. Hughes

  Painting, More Time, Contracts

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• Do I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over?

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Dark, Providence, Seems

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• Without infringing on the liberty we so much boast, might we not ask our professional Mayor to call upon the smokers, have them register their names in each ward, and then appoint certain thoroughfares in the city for their use, that those who feel no need of this envelopment of curling vapor, to insure protection may be relieved from a nuisance as disgusting to the olfactories as it is prejudicial to the lungs.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Cities, Names, Liberty

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• I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Unknown Worlds, Giving, Shadow

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• When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pain, Iron, Alliances

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.838, Stanford University Press

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• Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved.

  Mason Cooley

  Loss, Lasts, Lost

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• All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching.

  Robert Benchley

  Laughter, Rigidity, Involuntary

  Robert Benchley (1947). “Benchley--or else!”

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• A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.

  George Santayana

  Education, People, Judgement

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• This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone tocount myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Responsibility, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.202, Jazzybee Verlag

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• My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world; I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the responsibility of seeinga Universe which I do not use? I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Responsibility, Roots, Perception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.485

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• Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon he is again placed on reconnaissance for expectancy; then he is again relieved, but as long as there is any future for him, he has not yet finished his service. And while human life goes on this way in very diverse expectancy, expecting very different things according to different times and occasions and in different frames of mind, all life is again one nightwatch of expectancy.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Long, Mind, Different

  "Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1844.

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• I am, in fact, the complete anti-Messiah, and detest converts almost as much as I detest missionaries. My writings, such as they are, have had only one purpose: to attain for H. L. Mencken that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

  H. L. Mencken

  Writing, Giving, Feelings

  "For the Defense Written for the Associated Press, for use in my obituary" by H. L. Mencken, November 20, 1940.

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• One of the great things about Parkinson's, in a superficial way, is it relieved me of vanity. I don't worry about what I look like, because it's literally out of my hands. But on a deeper level, it gives you a real humility, because you have to deal every day with the fact that you compromise.

  Michael J. Fox

  Real, Humility, Vanity

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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• The stock market was relieved that the Fed didn't sound tougher, and the stock market seems to figure that everything they like about Donald Trump will come true, and everything they're afraid of about Donald Trump will not come true.

  David Wessel

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released, but householders entertain no desire to be relieved from the ties of family. When a man's passion is aroused nothing prevents him from ruining himself. Even into the jaws of a tiger will he jump. Those who are thus drowned in the filth of passion are called the ignorant. Those who are able to overcome it are saintly Arhats.

  Gautama Buddha

  Passion, Men, Ties

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• (Talks about her grandmother Marjorie Finlay)"She was actually a recording star in Puerto Rico when my mom was growing up. My mom was always stuck sitting backstage somewhere or sitting in a front row, watching a performance her entire childhood. She thought that when her mom stopped performing she was relieved of those duties, but all I wanted to do was sing, ever since I was born, so she's always been backstage.

  Taylor Swift

  Mom, Stars, Growing Up

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• I'm relieved Peeta's alive. I tell myself again that if I get killed, his winnings will benefit my mother and Prim the most. This is what I tell myself to explain the conflicting emotions that arise when I think of Peeta. The gratitude that he game an edge by professing his love for me in the interview. The anger at his superiority on the roof. The dread that we may come face-to-face at any moment in this arena.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Gratitude, Winning

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