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After explaining why you're in trouble, ask the creditor if the company would be willing to accept a smaller amount. Start negotiations… — Jean Chatzky Copy Share Image
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The Holy Ghost, a personage of spirit, is their minister, who has been given the power and assigned the functions of bearing… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all due respect,… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil… — Plato Copy Share Image
When anaesthetics were invented they were thought to be wicked as being an attempt to thwart God's will. Insanity was thought to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Changes in society are due chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in society, that is, the contradiction between the productive… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Many of us have a tendency to forget the Gracious Hand which has preserved our nation, enriched it, strengthened it. Many of… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I played the vina until my heart turned into the same instrument. Then I offered this instrument to the Divine Musician, the… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Those who take to guns could do so due to deprivation, suppression, or historical legacy. The Afghans have lived through violence for… — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
I started to concentrate more upon how the viewer looks at photographs... I would insert my own text or my own specific… — Lorna Simpson Copy Share Image
Outside of America, there are many people, myself included, who champion values that, in some senses, could be thought of as traditionally… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
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I'm not going to hang out with celebrities, I'm not going to parties. I have two songs due for Moana next week,… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
History repeats itself again I guess the rate of innovation is so high in our industry that if you don’t innovate at… — Thorsten Heins Copy Share Image
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The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and… — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Air pollution is my biggest concern right now. Maybe because I live in Beijing, and in this city we have such severe… — Li Bingbing Copy Share Image
The men of Texas deserved much credit, but more was due the women. Armed men facing a foe could not but be… — Thomas Jefferson Rusk Copy Share Image
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Im very disappointed that we missed our (earnings per share) growth target this quarter due to the confluence of a number of… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
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I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
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Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and,… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where… — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
...there is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
Christian humility does not consist in denying what there is of good in us; but in an abiding sense of ill-desert, and… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
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The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image