The duration of this gas spike matters.


Jonathan Steinmetz

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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
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Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
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and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just...
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I am a longtime, rabid fan of Jonathan Kozol.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
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That is a big spike.
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Timing and accuracy is really what matters at the end of the day.
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It has to do with duration.
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Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.
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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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There certainly was a spike in filings.
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Human resource is limited to the duration of his/her lifespan while time is unlimited.
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Clearly, much of this high level of pay is due to the high price of gas.
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God determine the time and duration in the wilderness for every man.
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My sense is there's going be another price spike.
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The main issues were wages and duration, and we dealt with those.
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We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.
JONATHAN WESTOVER
I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations,
JONATHAN KOZOL
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFT
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFT
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
JONATHAN SWIFT
One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of t...
JONATHAN RABAN
I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contrib...
JONATHAN SWIFT
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: a...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Come, agree, the law's costly.
JONATHAN SWIFT
There's none so blind as they that won't see.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; wh...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserte...
JONATHAN RABAN
But when a Man
JONATHAN SWIFT
Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
JONATHAN SWIFT
There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external r...
JONATHAN EDWARDS
Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstr...
JONATHAN MILLER
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
JONATHAN EDWARDS
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,...
JONATHAN SWIFT
I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
JONATHAN SWIFT
It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT
A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
JONATHAN GASH
Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT
But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into...
JONATHAN SWIFT