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JOHN GOKONGWEI I never thought I would be so pleased with a sixth-place finish.
JEAN PRAHM In those days, the funeral home ran the ambulance service and also did the coroner's work. If a pers...
RUSS INGRAM Augustus Waters talked so much that he’d interrupt you at his own funeral.
JOHN GREEN Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interrupt you at his own funeral.
JOHN GREEN Augustus Waters talked so much that he's interrupt you at his own funeral.
JOHN GREEN I just don't like playing (Burke) back-to-back at this point in the season, so Johnny went in.
JOHN TORTORELLA I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat...
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ANNETTE OSHER I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh,...
ED OXENBOULD I never gave it a thought, so I'm sure that there were dogs on campus.
ALEX EWING I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so l...
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PATRICK MOYNIHAN I never thought that could happen.
ELVIS DUMERVIL I want to confess. I thought that her story was comprised of scenes. I thought the tragedy could be ...
NINA LACOUR I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never...
MARIAN KEYES She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I never knew I liked to be outside so much. I never knew I liked lochs and views and that, but I cou...
JENN FAGAN Kathy pushed out, but there was no interference and in the end it was a just result.
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VAN HORN I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a...
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SHARON ROBINSON Your life could be so much better, if you would only decide that it will.
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EDMUND BURKE A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the
world.
EDMUND BURKE That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
EDMUND BURKE Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one
direction, have great influence on the pub...
EDMUND BURKE Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
EDMUND BURKE No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
EDMUND BURKE We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and
Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laught...
EDMUND BURKE It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law,
according to the golden mete-wand...
EDMUND BURKE The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
EDMUND BURKE There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a
virtue.
EDMUND BURKE Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it...
EDMUND BURKE Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair
EDMUND BURKE Turn over a new leaf.
EDMUND BURKE Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart
EDMUND BURKE But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
EDMUND BURKE Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
EDMUND BURKE What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience
to the will of the Sovereign of th...
EDMUND BURKE