“ When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding. ”
- Mack R. Douglas- Copy
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“ There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. ”
- Iris Murdoch- Copy
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“ Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt. ”
- Sir Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink: his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The American Army has supplied, assigned a very capable man to me, to help me, bring me to military justice. I don't think I need no civilians. All I want to do is clear myself with the American Army. ”
- Robert Jenkins- Copy
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“ Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet. ”
- King Edward VIII- Copy
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“ Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
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“ Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion for passion? All the cosmetics names seemed obscenely obvious to me in their promises of sexual bliss. They were all firming or uplifting or invigorating… ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
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“ Common sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant. This ideology is compounded from different sources: items that have survived from religion, items of empirical knowledge, items of protective skepticism, items culled for comfort from the superficial learning that is supplied… ”
- John Berger- Copy
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“ Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade: A breath can make them, as a breath has made; but a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation and lived under conditions not easily conceived. Melsius believed them to have inhabited "the Void" and to have been something intermediate between fishes and birds… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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