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thinking people remember
Charles Caleb Colton A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.
thinking greed words-of-wisdom
Charles Dickens "As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
thinking people noses
Charles Dickens I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.
thinking diversity different
Charles Dickens Them which is of other naturs thinks different.
thinking america impossible
Charles Dickens I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.
thinking pieces ships
Charles Dickens and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.
thinking light law
Charles Dickens The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.
thinking advice
Charles Stewart Parnell Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.
special progress tools
Frederic Bastiat There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.
special shapes lines
Benoit Mandelbrot Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities, but some shapes in nature are so complicated that they are equally complicated at the big scale and come closer and closer and they don't become any less complicated.
special routine crime
Carl Hiaasen Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.
special disadvantages terrible
Carl Jung Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.
special used call-me
Edward Furlong Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.'
special ordinary politeness
Edmund Wilson They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.
special youth young
Edna Ferber I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.
special disease polio
Bill Gates Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.
special nails now-and-then
Bob Seger Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.
ugly fame stressful
Diablo Cody You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.
ugly suits mood
Bryan Ferry Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?
ugly looks action
Deb Caletti ... But then again, a person could turn ugly. Their actual look could change when their actions were repulsive.
ugly flawless
Dennis Lehane There's something ugly about the flawless.
ugly vices mask
Benjamin Franklin Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask.
ugly vices virtue
Benjamin Franklin Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.
ugly honest comedy
Aisha Tyler Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.
ugly worse
Scott Wren It's ugly out there, but I don't think its going to get much worse going forward.
ugly win
John Tortorella It's an ugly two points, but you have to win them.