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"In soft regions are born soft men." »Herodotus
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"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg." »Anonymous
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"I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout." »Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"
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"I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior." »Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason
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"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft" »Theodore Roosevelt
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"Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view." »George Bush
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"A soft answer turneth away wrath." »Proverbs 151 Bible
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"There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience." »French Proverb
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"Use soft words and hard arguments." »English Proverb
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"'Out upon merry Christmas What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer... If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should'" »Charles Dickens
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"The words you speak today should be soft and tender. . . for tomorrow you may have to eat them." »Unknown
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"Farewell is a beautiful and a soft word and yet it is a horrible and a heavy thing too!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Farewell is a beautiful and a soft word and yet it is a horrible and a heavy thing!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The potter forms what he pleases with soft clay, so a man accomplishes his works by his own act." »The Hitopadesa
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"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." »William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 1
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"But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." »William Shakespeare
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"The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches." »e e cummings
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"A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger." »Bible, Proverbs 15:1 (KJV)
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"Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun." »Ruth Westheimer
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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music." »Vladimir Nabokov
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"My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music." »Vladimir Nabokov
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"Stay calm inside! You will then see that outside storms of life, even the most terrible ones, will turn into soft winds." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Propaganda is a soft weapon hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way." »Jean Anouilh
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"A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp." »Marjorie Holmes
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"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan." »Martin Luther King Jr.
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"The safest road to hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken." »Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"On a soft snow, even a sparrow leaves a trace; the important thing is to leave a trace on a steel plate!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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