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I knew more about produce from the sea than any of my schoolmates, and my reports in school, from kindergarten on, amused and shocked my classmates and teachers. I told them how we ate with chopsticks, had rice and seaweed for breakfast, raw fish, octopus, and sea urchin eggs for supper, and cakes made from sharks. Eugenie Clark
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I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now understand as courage in the work of others as well as in my own work, and I found I was mildly amused or interested by such plays but not deeply engaged or enlightened. Ellen McLaughlin
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BONDSMAN, n. A fool who, having property of his own, undertakes to become responsible for that entrusted to another to a third. Philippe of Orleans wishing to appoint one of his favorites, a dissolute nobleman, to a high office, asked him what security he would be able to give. ""I need no bondsmen,"" he replied, ""for I can give you my word of honor."" ""And pray what may be the value of that?"" inquired the amused Regent. ""Monsieur, it is worth its weight in gold. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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To read Wilson... is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated. James Atlas
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When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is. Antonio Sabato, Jr.
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So I was surprised at the notion that I might have brought anthrax to my home, and would have been even amused if it was not for the fact that this matter is so grave and serious. Steven Hatfill
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I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame. T. Boone Pickens
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I'm always amused when the 'New York Times' writes editorials trying to be helpful to Republicans and say, 'This is the way Republicans can save themselves.' Look, the 'New York Times' disagrees with us. They're entitled to disagree with us, but it's not like we should take their advice. Ted Cruz
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I'm always amused when people point out that Benjamin's naivety about the publishing process is just so unbelievable in Starborn #1 since, of course, no aspiring writer in reality could ever be so naive.
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A very little key will open a very heavy door. Charles Dickens
education teaching brain
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it. Charles Caleb Colton
education book men
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
education mind armor
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
education teaching knowledge
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
educational clothes giving
Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life. Alan Watts
education learning buddhism
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
education country government
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country. Al Sharpton
education learning school
Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore. Al Pacino
pay attention share
I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes? Alan Green
pay attention objects
Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. Aiden Wilson Tozer
pay fool this-life
Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for. Edith Piaf
pay merit
No one is mandating merit pay. Arne Duncan
pay willing
When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues. Les Brown
pay investing investment
The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it. Benjamin Graham
pay bills hotel
It was never decreed that a god mustn't pay hotel bills. Bertolt Brecht
pay people social supposed though
When you're undocumented, you're supposed to keep your head down and be quiet and pay taxes, social security - even though people don't know that we do those things - and not say anything. Jose Antonio Vargas
pay attention crave
Pay no attention to haters, attention is what they crave. Cher Lloyd
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people missionary christianity
Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary. Charles Studd
people littles controversy
In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested. Charles Stross
people church opinion
I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church. Charles Stanley
people waiting lord
The Lord's people have always been a waiting people. Charles Spurgeon
people sin made
People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.
willingness
I have always emphasized the willingness to discard. Daniel Kahneman
willing
Don't hope more than you're willing to work. Rita Mae Brown
willing
We are only in charge when we are willing to let others take charge. Simon Sinek
willing ifs visible
If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything. Ruth Bernhard
willing knows
I am willing to bet that there are some Puerto Ricans who don't know about [their status]. Sonia Sotomayor
willing capable
It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do. Mike Tomlin
willing sells has-beens
I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy. John Waters
willing fronts
The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others. John Stossel
willing persons ifs
I would only hire someone to work directly for me if I was willing to work for that person. Mark Zuckerberg