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past political reform
Charles Caleb Colton Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.
past men miracle
Charles Caleb Colton There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.
past water people
Charles Dickens "People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."
past years tvs
Charles Stross My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).
past giving video
Alanis Morissette Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.
past dangerous-situations risk
Alan Watts The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.
past games matter
Alan Watts If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.
past listening life-is-like
Alan Watts Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
hands feelings excess
Charles Caleb Colton The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.
hands class two
Charles Caleb Colton Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.
hands sorrow tears
Charles Dickens If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!
hands feet office
Charles Dickens Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
hands library grew
Charles Stross I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.
hands soul half
Charles Spurgeon I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.
hands despair rope
Charles Spurgeon Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.
hands soap calling
Charles Spurgeon There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.
hands doe lap
Alan Watts Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?
issues gold persuasion
Alan Greenspan An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
issues people giving
David Brooks People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.They have some issue. They have some interest.It may be preserving carried interest. But it's not altruistic.
issues economic-models solve
Barry Diller No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
issues spheres moral
Barney Frank The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.
issues giving people
Barney Frank Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.
issues government challenges
Carlos Mesa My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
issues mean teachers thus
Karen Dinkins We have much different issues than the teachers. Just because the teachers go thus and so, it doesn't mean that's right for our members.
issues care passionate
Alan Lowenthal Im passionate about the issues that I care about, and Im a really good listener.
issues important safe
Charlie Crist You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.