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corruption ancient ancient-times
Charles Baudelaire In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.
corrupt finances fiscal introduced managing public rule
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Nigeria, with the oil sector, had the reputation of being corrupt and not managing its own public finances well. So what did we try to do? We introduced a fiscal rule that de-linked our budget from the oil price.
corruption foolish resorts
Benjamin Tucker It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.
corrupt evil forth gather good grapes men shall tree
Bible Bible Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? / Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
corruption good leader train whoever
Jeff Nielsen They have a good organization. They don't have corruption issues. We hire, we train well, so whoever the leader is they'll all do well into the future, and make us a better place.
corruption except fact hungry people public wire
Charles Sciarra Think of what you see now in public corruption: kickbacks and wire fraud. This is a joke, except for the fact that these people are so hungry for her.
corruption crocodiles stop
Tony Leon They say they are going to stop corruption at the ANC ... crocodiles are going to become vegetarians.
corrupt dear embrace enjoy forgetting pillars shall
Granth Sahib Forgetting your Dear Lord, you enjoy corrupt pleasures, and so you shall have to embrace red-hot pillars
evil lazy would-be
Charles Dickens The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.
evil statesmen statesmanship
Charles Caleb Colton It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.
evil choices goods
Charles Caleb Colton Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
evil decision choices
Charles Caleb Colton Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
evil growth rapids
Charles Caleb Colton No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.
evil giving decision
Charles Caleb Colton Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.
evil unhappy ends
Charles Dickens Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.
evil hatred debt
Charles Dickens It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.
evil wells decided
Charles Simmons It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
forth garage hoping likely possibly sitting
Kevin Taylor We're hoping that someone would come forth with info about this. We think that it could be possibly sitting in someone's garage and someone is likely to know about that.
forth run
Sharon Versyp They had a run, then we had a run and it was back and forth after that.
forth
Nils Frederiksen They were going back and forth between Crawford and Venango.
forth good
Craig Martin They've got a really good team. It was back and forth the whole time. It's the kind you like and don't like to coach.
forth people scream
John Adams It really crackles back and forth with dialogue, especially in the first act, where people really scream at one another, as they should.
forth people
Van Toffler It's all about circulating people back and forth between the different screens.
forth played
John Rimas It was back and forth most of the way. We played tough.
forth half knew second turn
Jody Gravelin It was back and forth in the first half and you never knew how it was going to turn out. We just didn't have it in the second half.
forth talking
Terrence Holt It was funny. We were going back and forth with each other, talking the whole game.
gather information input interview move
Lorie Smith We want to try and gather as much input and information as we move into the interview process.
gathered good perform trailers willing
Ludivine Sagnier I would like to perform more in English. But there have to be many good things gathered for me to be willing to do a movie. I watch trailers of every new American movie and I'm, like, 'OK, I'm not missing anything!'
gathering people provide strive understanding
Richard Smith We strive to provide a place of gathering and understanding where people of all socioeconomic backgrounds can come together,
gathering group mosques muslim particular places program targeting
Mike Mason There is no nuclear- or radiation-monitoring program targeting mosques or other places of gathering by Muslim or any other particular group of citizens.
gather love remain true
O. Singh They gather Truth, remain always in Truth, and love the True Name.
gathering historic justice message ministers opportunity particular provide send system
Michael Bryant This particular gathering of justice ministers does provide a historic opportunity for the justice system to send a message to Parliament,
gather hall milton people sets watch
Al Feldstein There were some television sets back in the '50s, but they were expensive. People would gather at the rich guy's apartment down the hall to watch Milton Berle on his 10-inch black-and-white screen.
gathered group helping joy passing plane remember sat talk took
Eric Heitmann I took Thomas' passing pretty hard, ... The things that are helping us are to talk about Thomas, and to re-live his life. On the plane on the way home, we gathered a big group of us, and we just sat and rehashed everything we could remember about Thomas. There was just so much joy in his life.
gather others particular three tribes
Bob Williams It's a little more complicated than the others in that, in this particular case, there are three namesake tribes that we have to gather input.
goods
Charles Dickens Money and goods are certainly the best of references.
good-morning beauty nature
Charles Dickens Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
good-friend trying disability
Charles Dickens Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
good-life two evil
Charles Caleb Colton Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.
good-things cruelty
Charles Dickens A good thing can't be cruel.
good-man energy attention
Charles Simmons Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
good-day writing emotional
Alan Moore If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.
goodbye farewell heart
Alan Alda The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
good-movie complicated enjoyable
Akira Kurosawa A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
grapes kid rear sour worked
Bill Hartley This kid worked his rear off to get up here. I don't want to be sour grapes ... but I'm a father.
grapes labor television whatever
Frederic Raphael The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
grapes contact
Juvenal The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.
grapes
Charles Bukowski It's just that the grape has me down.
grapes sour
Aesop I am sure the grapes are sour.
grapes mankind passions tread
Alfred Adler My passions are the grapes that I tread out for mankind.
grapes guys sour timing upset
Mathieu Schneider Guys were upset over some of the things that were going on off the ice. But the timing of it, it sounded like sour grapes after losing.
men perfection great-expectations
Charles Dickens The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.
men years practice
Charles Dickens Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
men self world
Charles Dickens It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.
men words-of-wisdom aversion
Charles Dickens No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.
men glasses light
Charles Dickens The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
men tongue habit
Charles Dickens The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.
men words-of-wisdom daylight
Charles Dickens He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.
men sea waiting
Charles Dickens Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
men way aging
Charles Dickens I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?
shall stuff time
Donald Hall now i have time to do stuff, and do stuff i shall do!
shall
Voltaire say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you
shall testimony thy
Bible Bible Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
shall
Brian Ballard There will be some voter-friendly, or shall we say patronizing, legislation. We'll see some trash, but most of it will be pretty good.
shall whether
Sessue Hayakawa I shall ask to see whether they want me in dress clothes or in Japanese.
shall
Joyce Banda I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.
shall
George Whitefield At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.
shall
Garfield Ewings We have it all to do but are not out of contention. We shall keep going right to the end.
shall
Kofi Annan We shall see, ... They want to end this.
tree shade way
Charles Dickens Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
tree world this-world
Alan Watts We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.
tree sun bigs
Chinua Achebe When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.
tree lizards praise
Chinua Achebe The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
tree remember sometimes
David Hockney It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.
tree tongue shows
William Shakespeare Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .
tree bent grows
Bill O'Reilly As the tree is bent, so it will grow.
tree spheres earth
Bill Nye Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
tree storm violent
Bertolt Brecht The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?