“ What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
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“ You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them. ”
- Leslie Caron- Copy
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“ Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech. ”
- Auberon Waugh- Copy
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“ It is expressly at those times when we feel needy that we will benefit the most from giving. ”
- Ruth Ross- Copy
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“ Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if they've kept a public house, Sammy. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain. ”
- C.S. Lewis- Copy
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“ I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
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“ I feel Polish. More specifically, I feel like I'm from the tiny village in the Northeast of Poland where I have a house and where I love to spend time. But I don't work there. I cut wood. ”
- Krzysztof Kieslowski- Copy
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“ You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature. ”
- Les Brown- Copy
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“ Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human. ”
- Antonio Machado- Copy
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“ I have accepted fear as a part of life — specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
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“ Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them. ”
- Shakti Gawain- Copy
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“ In general, I tend to favor teachers over school boards in conflicts. Not that teachers are always right but school boards are often used by the politically ambitious as a step up the ladder. The politically ambitious rarely become kindergarten teachers. ”
- Jon Carroll- Copy
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“ Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing. ”
- Elwyn Brooks White- Copy
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“ I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life — specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown; and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far. ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
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“ I didn't make Gates of Heaven so that Werner Herzog would have to eat his shoe. It's not as if I decided to realize my potential as a human being in order to get somebody to ingest something distasteful. I specifically asked Werner not to eat his shoe. ”
- Errol Morris- Copy
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“ The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both. ”
- John Cornyn- Copy
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“ What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules — don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
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