“ Anyone who knows me knows I'm not jealous of anybody. I'm proud of what Mark McGwire did; I'm proud of what Sammy did. They lifted the game. ”
- Barry Bonds- Copy
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“ I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. ”
- Gerald Stanley Lee- Copy
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“ War is the great scavenger of thought. It is the sovereign disinfectant, and its red stream of blood is the Condy's Fluid that cleans out the stagnant pools and clotted channels of the intellect. We have awakened from an opium-dream of comfort, of ease, of that miserable poltroonery of "the sheltered life… ”
- Sir Edmund Gosse- Copy
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“ Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off. ”
- Ralph J. Cudworth- Copy
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“ I was born in Rolling Fork and raised up in a little town called Clarksdale. When I went back to play some music in Rolling Fork, I had records out then. I wasn't raised in Rolling Fork. I was born there, and came away from there when I was 2 years old… ”
- Muddy Waters- Copy
- 2.7K
“ It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. ”
- Simone De Beauvoir- Copy
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“ I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes. ”
- Marlene Dietrich- Copy
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“ My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense. ”
- Fred Allen- Copy
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“ George Bush has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better. ”
- Bill Clinton- Copy
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“ One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer. ”
- G. E. Lessing- Copy
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“ It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was. ”
- Paris Hilton- Copy
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“ When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to be a martyr. ”
- Anne Boleyn- Copy
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“ All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism and sexism. ”
- Oprah Winfrey- Copy
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“ I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. ”
- Sally Field- Copy
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“ It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans. ”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
- 3K
“ It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. ”
- Francesco Petrarch- Copy
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“ Money is not given, it has to be raised. Money is not offered, it has to be asked for. Money does not come in. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ My voice has been raised not only in song, but to make the big world outside Through me, understand something of the spirit of my beloved country. ”
- Nellie Melba- Copy
- 53
“ Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ Our children had the privilege of growing up where they'd raised a lot of food. They were never hungry. They could share their food with people. And so, you share your lives with people. ”
- Ella Baker- Copy
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