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skills long honor
Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill. Brian Jacques
skills ambitious movement
I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill. Diane Cilento
skills president next
Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require. Artur Davis
skills want towns
Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right? Brian Van Holt
skills territory needs
To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment. Eckhart Tolle
skills iraq answers
When Jeb Bush came on the shows and couldn't answer questions about Iraq, and when he looked like he was unsteady, it absolutely solidified the concerns that they had had all along about his skills. Amy Walter
skills want virtue
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. Alexander Pope
skills eggs taste
My culinary skills are terrible. I can't even make toast taste good. I do make scrambled eggs for myself sometimes but I wouldn't even inflict that on anyone else. Drew Barrymore
skills theatre realizing
Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer. Douglas Wilson
telephones conversation objects
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations. Brian Eno
telephones hang-ups armour
I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone. Richard Armour
telephones criticize
To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone. Jesse Eisenberg
facts fish giving life telling
Telling a teen-ager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. Arnold Glasow
facts false individual information intended people trying
This is not intended to give false confidence. It's really about trying to get people the facts and information they need so they can make individual decisions.
facts destination fine
What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. Barbara Kingsolver
facts ethical states
The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right. Benito Mussolini
facts fiction sometimes
Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction Carol Alt
facts fountainhead rules-for-radicals
It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith. Saul Alinsky
facts machines arithmetic
That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine. Arthur Schopenhauer
facts human intense value vision
The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts. William Williams
facts omit private public pundits running systems though voters weary
Though pundits and politicians, weary of the story, are happy to omit facts about voting systems and their private contractors running our public elections, such omissions impair voters and democracy itself.