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"Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice." »Gilbert Chesterton
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"A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice." »Shana Alexander
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"Dawson Well, all I'm saying is that I want to look back and say that I did it the best I could while I was stuck in this place. Had as much fun as I could while I was stuck in this place. Played as hard as I could while I was stuck in this place. Dogged as many girls as I could while I was stuck in this place." »Dazed and Confused
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"Civilization is the process of setting man free from men." »Ayn Rand
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"The world is content with setting right the surface of things." »John Henry Newman
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"setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age." »William Feather
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"Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim." »Henry Graham Greene
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"Acts of injustice done
Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones, each one." »W. H. Auden
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"Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun." »Augusta Jane Evans
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"setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan." »Tom Landry
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"The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are able to learn may be one of the biggest mistakes mankind has ever made. It could also be one of the last." »Richard Forsyth - Machine Learning for Expert Systems
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"But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided." »Alfred North Whitehead
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"setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing." »William Faulkner
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"Men hail the rising sun with glee, They love his setting glow to see, But fail to mark that every day In fragments bears their life away." »Ramayana
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"There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand." »Charles Rosin
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"Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." »Harriet
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"The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time." »Willie Tyler
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"If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place." »Cicero
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"If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even the third place." »Cicero
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"Why is the place you drive on is a parkway, and the place you park on is the driveway?" »Charles Lauller
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"House is a place where you live in, but home is a place where you belong" »The Omani Shed
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"If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there" »Jerry Stahl
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"You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters." »Plato
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"Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage." »John Oliver Hobbes
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"Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation." »Walter Winchell
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"A small town is a place where there is no place to go where you shouldn't." »Burt Bacharach
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"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain." »Mary Catherine Bateson
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"The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get." »Jim Rohn
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