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Adolf Hitler, His 3rd Public Speech After taking Power. · Martin Van Buren, taking over from Andrew Jackson in 1837

Frank Well, uh I guess I, deep down, am feeling a little confused. I mean, suddenly, you get married, and you're supposed to be this entirely different guy. I don't feel different. I mean, take yesterday for example. We were out at the Olive Garden for dinner, which was lovely. And uh, I happen to look over at a certain point during the meal and see a waitress taking an order, and I found myself wondering what color her underpants might be. Her panties. Uh, odds are they are probably basic white, cotton, underpants. But I sort of think well maybe they're silk panties, maybe it's a thong. Maybe it's something really cool that I don't even know about. You know, and uh, and I started feeling... what what I thought we were in the trust tree in the nest, were we not – Old School
I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end. – Ellen Glasgow
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail. – Charles A. Beard
I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead. – Andrew Schneider
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles - Calvin – Bill Watterson
TAKING THE FIRST FOOTSTEP with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered paradise. – Zoroaster
The hardest part of any journey is taking that first step. – Unknown
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be. – Pearl Buck
You get most things in life not by taking, but by giving. – Bryant McGill
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes. – Mickey Mouse
Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them. – Clarence Birdseye
Necessity is the mother of taking chances. – Mark Twain
What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath. – Thomas Crum
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. – Gilda Radner
'At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.' – Charles Dickens
'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them. – David Borenstein
A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition. – Earl of Kent, _The_Tragedy_of_King_Lear_
Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby. – Unknown
Are there anything more dishonourable and more coward than not marching in front of the army after taking the decision of war as a politician? Sending others for dying but keeping himself in safety is the affair of the low man only! – Mehmet Murat ildan
At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me. – Barnaby C. Keeney
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing. – Richard Milhous Nixon
chance is only for the people willing to give it ago n taking it is only encourage by the people who believe in you ! – Craig Dobson-2010
Confidence is Going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, And taking the tarter sauce with you. A Bullfighter who goes in the ring with mustard on his sword. – Zig Ziglar
Contentment consisteth not in heaping more fuel, but in taking away some fire. – Fuller
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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