“ What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. ”
- Richard Bach- Copy
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“ As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. ”
- Richard Bach- Copy
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“ Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. ”
- Robert Hall- Copy
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“ If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
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“ Titles are marks of honest men, and wise: The fool or knave that wears a title lies. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
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“ The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense. ”
- Jean Piaget- Copy
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“ And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms. - As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ And if his name be George, I 'll call him Peter; For new-made honour doth forget men's names. - King John. Act i. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it "the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul." The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of "Artist… ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
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“ This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it. ”
- Al Capone- Copy
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“ Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame … and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country. ”
- Henry Knox- Copy
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“ In the US we find the label requirements are crazy. It is almost as if we had to label a bookcase with the warning 'do not eat this bookcase — it can be harmful to your health'. ”
- Bjorn Bayley- Copy
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“ We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town. ”
- Toby Keith- Copy
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“ However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ He calls his wish, it comes; he sends it back, And says he called another; that arrives, Meets the same welcome; yet he still calls on; Till one calls him, who varies not his call, But holds him fast, in chains of darkness bound, Till Nature dies, and judgment sets him free; A freedom far less welcome than this chain. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
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“ I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world. ”
- Richard Branson- Copy
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“ I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none. ”
- Ben Shahn- Copy
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“ Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat. ”
- Peter Sellers- Copy
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“ It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. ”
- Margaret Mead- Copy
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“ I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food. ”
- Michael Stipe- Copy
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“ Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. ”
- John Ciardi- Copy
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“ O can't you see, brother — Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label. ”
- C. D. Andrews- Copy
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