“ It is a little off-putting to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame and then be charged to go there. ”
- Graham Nash- Copy
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“ All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
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“ Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. ”
- James Madison- Copy
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“ Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ CONFIDANT, CONFIDANTE, n. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B, confided by him to C. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity. ”
- George Washington- Copy
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“ It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. ”
- William Ernest Henley- Copy
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“ The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air. ”
- William Gilmore Simms- Copy
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“ The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody. ”
- Lawrence G. Lovasik- Copy
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“ Those of us who had a chance to ask questions should have charged that much for speaking lines. It was like making love in Carnegie Hall. ”
- Peter Lisagor- Copy
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“ By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. ”
- Thomas Merton- Copy
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“ Our courts are charged with safeguarding the very principles America stands for: justice, equality, individual liberty. That courthouse door must always be open, and when someone walks through that door they have to find an independent judiciary. I want to be sure when somebody walks through that courthouse door they not only get a fair trial and a fair hearing, but they know that person providing it is the best of the best. ”
- Barbara Mikulski- Copy
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“ Newspapermen, as journalists used to be called, have long been charged with the sin of cynicism. a characterization that many of us encourage to deflect attention from our far more widespread flaw, incorrigible sentimentalism. ”
- Robert Manning- Copy
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“ It is important to admit your mistakes, and to do so before you are charged with them. Many clients are surrounded by buckpassers who make a fine art of blaming the agency for their own failures. I seize the earliest opportunity to assume the blame. ”
- David Ogilvy- Copy
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“ I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below. ”
- Angus Wilson- Copy
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“ It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it serves as a charged microcosm of the variety of attitudes and values to which culture subscribes… ”
- Kate Millet- Copy
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“ If physical force is to be barred from social relationships, men need an institution charged with the task of protecting their rights under an objective code of rules. This is the task of a government - of a proper government - its basic task, its only moral justification and the reason why men do need a government… ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred — it is the amphetamine of its believers. ”
- Arianna Stassinopoulos- Copy
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