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Hubert Humphrey

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RUSSELL BAKER
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
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Never answer a question from a farmer.
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American public opinion is like an ocean -- it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
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The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
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The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously.
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National isolation breeds national neurosis.
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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
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the most powerful case in the country.
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But strong buying interest appeared to beat profit-taking in the end.
MITSUSHIGE AKINO
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Everything Ashley Humphrey did was this guy's fault. Blame it on Mr. Humphrey.
JOSEPH MCDERMOTT
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TRENT FRANKS
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KIM GANDY
Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.
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AL BAUMAN
It's hard to beat,
DAVE SMITH
The combination of hard work and smart work is efficient work
ROBERT HALF
She has the true combination of a champion. They're hard to find, I'll tell you that.
ARNO HOOGVELD
They're a good team. They're hard to beat.
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There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity. - Sir Humphrey Davy,
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The biggest part of the profit cycle now lies behind us. The sort of profit growth we have seen over...
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Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping?'
'You're bitching about ...
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It's hard to beat that team,
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It's never easier. The teams that we beat are going to be coming after us, gunning for us and the te...
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It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
BABE RUTH
It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
BABE RUTH
It's hard to beat a team three times. They're improved.
BEN HOWLAND
Silence and ignorance are a deadly combination!
JAIME CONTRERAS
Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination.
WILLIAM LONGGOOD
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
HERSCHEL WALKER
The kids really wanted it. When we play that hard, we are awfully tough to beat.
DAVE KUHLEN
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
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Never give in and never give up.
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Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
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The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
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Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
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And they danced with laughter and tears. They swung each other round and round, the first and last t...
HUBERT MARTIN
Just being around her made me feel better. She had an amber shade aura to her that filled any cracks...
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Inside, my soul is curled tightly bearing the burden of massive sins from another life. And my eyes ...
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Every decision, every single one, comes with a price to pay. It means you chose one thing over anoth...
HUBERT MARTIN
The brittle seeds remained inside my soul, my tears the water that begged them to grow. And though I...
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It was a burden on all her muscles. A hollow deeper than her bones. She braced herself though, she k...
HUBERT MARTIN
I held my breath tightly against the shivers coursing through my body. Darkness ate away the edges o...
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His eyes are covered by impermeable marble, a solidity that can never be breached. You think there i...
HUBERT MARTIN
We are the living whole of the fragments from the things we've experienced and people we've encounte...
HUBERT MARTIN
My scars show you I've been strong enough to endure the trauma of the world. My heart has no scars, ...
HUBERT MARTIN
I wear my past around my shoulders as a fine, but worn, cloak. Don't be fooled by my cloak's appeara...
HUBERT MARTIN
And in my novels I live many lives. Substitutes of spontaneity to replace a dreary reality. How I li...
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The storm only grew stronger. Walls of facets became flooded with cracks, the tumultuous gale escape...
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It was a slow fall, through warm experiences and good laughs. It didn't even feel like love until I ...
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They surrounded me, bare me. Their fingers like tentacles and their desires like knives. Their finge...
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On these days, I've never felt so hollow. Recollecting the many pieces of me that were lost in past ...
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Adventures kept hidden, words kept silent. You became my greatest secret. And when you left, no one ...
HUBERT MARTIN
I wanted to know every story behind the scars on her curves. I wanted to decipher the whispers hidde...
HUBERT MARTIN
I was burdened with an ever-growing heart on the verge of decay. To save myself, I had to give many ...
HUBERT MARTIN
I always thought time was the most valuable currency, but I realized the people we spent our time on...
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All my past heartache and pain suddenly made sense. That was who I would not be to the person who de...
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It was the end for something. It was the beginning for another. But in reality it just fell in the m...
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You are whole today, looking back at fragments of the past. Such a hollow foundation for such a powe...
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I wanted nothing more than her attention. Her thoughts filled with me. Her eyes lost in my image. I ...
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My body held on though I held snapped threads in my hands and patches of my flesh were missing entir...
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She had the blood of the sun running through her veins and the dust of stars at her fingertips. Her ...
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And though they fell as ashes, their shadows drifted as leaves.
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I realized the world around me was fragmented and broken... I had to be gentle enough not to scrape ...
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He spoke in polished honesty free of liar's filth. He said the hardest words with an unshakable voic...
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Her words were slickly lacquered, dripping with venom that singed the air as they fell. She traced h...
HUBERT MARTIN
She was the half-whispers born from half-thoughts, the half-breaths of dying half-hearts.
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When it came to her, I became an indomitable warrior. My muscles became her shield and my lungs aide...
HUBERT MARTIN
Hoping fast that my arrow's flight is steady and true,
I need this, I need my arrow to find yo...
HUBERT MARTIN
My heart may be bruised and scarred, bleeding slow drip-drip with every thump and every other thump-...
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Whether it was in the maze of my fantastical mind or the allure of her gossamer eyes, they took me t...
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She is beyond any mortal structure of words, yet she inspires the effort to try anyway.
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She was the sort of girl who flooded my five senses. Her voice was melody to my ears, her taste gave...
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That's what really broke me, she was better than any fantasy I could hope to imagine. I've spent my ...
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I always deemed myself a one chance person, if you hurt me or betray me, then I'm done with you. As ...
HUBERT MARTIN
She speaks in heartbeats and the rises of her chest, words forever seared in thoughts that will neve...
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He sang softly, less with words and more with thought. She cradled his head, stitching together his ...
HUBERT MARTIN
These places I traveled through, they were a lot like the people I knew. Some abodes I muddled about...
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In a way, she became the sand to my hourglass... she made watching that trickling sand a little more...
HUBERT MARTIN
She was carmine shadows reflecting from my crimson words. Every pulse sent a velvet ripple through t...
HUBERT MARTIN
As I watched the sky morph shades of amber and amethyst, of fiery orange and smoldering pink, I alwa...
HUBERT MARTIN
That last bit of hope always lingered as a stubborn thread. Every time I would try to cut it I would...
HUBERT MARTIN
I spill my emotions and hopes on pieces of paper and pixels of screens, combining and creating, merg...
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