“ We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations. ”
- Joseph Howe- Copy
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“ This is an example of the resiliency of the market, of what has driven stocks higher for months. You've got PPI, GE, not so great, but they find a positive angle and take the market up. ”
- John Hughes- Copy
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“ As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. ”
- William Orville Douglas- Copy
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“ No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance. ”
- Henri De Regnier- Copy
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“ But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honourable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale. ”
- Sir Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office. ”
- Adrienne Gusoff- Copy
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“ I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ”
- James Madison- Copy
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“ Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want. ”
- Martha Beck- Copy
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“ I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ”
- Franklin P. Jones- Copy
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“ Good and bad luck is a synonym, in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment. ”
- John Chatfield- Copy
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“ History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances. ”
- William J. Durant- Copy
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“ Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it. ”
- George Washington- Copy
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“ Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul. ”
- Emma Goldman- Copy
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“ There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war. ”
- Saul Bellow- Copy
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“ There is scarcely an instance of a Ian who has made a fortune by speculation, and kept it. ”
- Andrew Carnegie- Copy
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“ What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law. ”
- John Christian Bovee- Copy
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“ You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
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“ I did picket one time, wore a swastika once in my life. I picketed William Kunstler at Tulane University and that's the only instance in my life that I ever did that. ”
- David Duke- Copy
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“ Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. ”
- Jean Kerr- Copy
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“ Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species. ”
- Melvin Maddocks- Copy
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“ All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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