“ Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another. ”
- Sir Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ I didn't want to engage in a campaign where I was defending myself on those issues at every turn, so I just decided that I'd switch and run as a Republican. ”
- Rodney Alexander- Copy
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“ It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life. ”
- John E. Hines- Copy
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“ To rely on a train in Blair's Britain is to engage in a crapshoot with the devil. ”
- Boris Johnson- Copy
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“ Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
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“ What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power. ”
- William S. Paley- Copy
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“ Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do. ”
- Byron R. White- Copy
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“ We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth. ”
- Malcolm Muggeridge- Copy
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“ But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music. ”
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau- Copy
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“ I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises. ”
- Alan Cumming- Copy
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“ There were some vacant camps, and we got information they were being used,... We are now going to occupy them. ”
- Pervez Musharraf- Copy
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“ Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. ”
- Alan Perlis- Copy
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“ If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
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“ Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. ”
- Alain van der Heide- Copy
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“ Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. ”
- Hamilton Wright Mabi- Copy
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“ Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! ”
- Hamilton Wright Mabie- Copy
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“ Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed. ”
- John Anster- Copy
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“ Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. ”
- Laurence Sterne- Copy
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“ Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it. ”
- Henry Ford- Copy
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“ When you engage in systematic, purposeful acting, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident about yourself. ”
- Brian Tracy- Copy
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“ There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud. ”
- Milton Friedman- Copy
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