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past seen wheels
Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done. F. Schumacher
past years people
The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth. Alex Jones
past judging dont-judge-me
Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible. Richelle Mead
past mma taught
Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious. Ronda Rousey
past simple men
A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast. William Faulkner
past years america
The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never. Richard M. Nixon
past land effort
As we work to expand our supplies of energy, we should also recognize that we must balance those efforts with our concern to preserve our environment. In the past, as we have sought new energy sources, we have too often damaged or despoiled our land.
past odds israel
We have been through, over these years, some difficult times. During the period that I have served as President of the United States, we have been through some difficult times together, and I can only say that the friendship that we have for this nation, the respect and the admiration we have for the people of this nation, their courage, their tenacity, their firmness in the face of very great odds, is one that makes us proud to stand with Israel, as we have in the past in times of trouble, and now to work with Israel in a better time, a time that we trust will be a time of peace.
past somewhere-else want
I want my poor value to exist past me, somewhere else.
literature great-work genre
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one. Walter Benjamin
literature records discontent
literature is the record of our discontent. Virginia Woolf
literature motto following
To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue. Vladimir Nabokov
literature moral censorship
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. William O. Douglas
literature prophet prove
Jesters do often prove prophets. Joseph Addison
literature london able
During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful. George Andrew Olah
literature lasts should
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. James Russell Lowell
literature stories short-story
The short story is the literature of the nomad. John Cheever
literature
To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like Northrop Frye
influence next obviously prove sat washington
He obviously sat next to me in Washington and lied. I don't know that there's any way to prove that anything he did was not under the influence of performance-enhancing drugs. Curt Schilling
influence
I don't give so I can have influence over there,
influence form fellows
... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. Saul Bellow
influence various
One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law. Vladimir Putin
influenced maybe sure undercover
I'm not sure what influenced him to go to VNI. Maybe it had something to do with his acting. In an undercover capacity, you really have to act.
influence lasting left respect tremendous
I have tremendous respect for Walt, ... He has left a lasting influence on all of us.
influence sad writer writers
I'm sad to sense that she may be evaporating into obscurity, because she's enormously important as a writer and as an influence on other writers and other artists.
influences sure
I'm sure I could start a band tomorrow that would have different influences and would want to do something completely different than anything I've done. Chris Cornell
influence nobody saying wrong
I'm not saying that he wasn't wrong because I know he was in the wrong, but I know he was under the influence and nobody can tell me different.