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Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's… — Diane Setterfield
I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money — Beth Henley
Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case. — Lance Armstrong
I have never doped â€¦ I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more than 500 drug… — Lance Armstrong
The Republican movement have not behaved properly over the years. They have not themselves implemented the Agreement. If they had implemented the Agreement then they… — David Trimble
This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction, and, as far as I can see, those to whom it was first delivered… — James Gilmour
...in place of seeking a reason for going abroad, I would prefer to say that I have failed to discover any reason why I should… — James Gilmour
Early morning, the orange sun is slowly rising, shining forth in empty luminous clarity. The mind and the sky are one, the sun is rising… — Ken Wilber
My generation has failed to stop the arms race. But it's really the men who have failed. Now it's up to the women, and I… — Gene La Rocque
Why has marriage failed? In the first place, we raised it to unnatural standards. We tried to make it something permanent, something sacred, without knowing… — Rajneesh
Marriage has failed because you could not rise to the standard that you were expecting of marriage, of the concept of marriage. You were brutal,… — Rajneesh
The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower… — Rosa DeLauro
No matter how widely you have travelled, you haven't seen the world if you have failed to look into the human hearts that inhabit it. — Donald C. Peattie
I was born with a stain. A mark. Like the mark of Cain. But is the mark of my father, my family. The mark of… — Cesare Borgia
During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it. — Davy Jones
When I was a boy, my grandfather taught me the list of kings: Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius the Elder, Servius Tullius.… — Steven Saylor
There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the reinstatement of cultural… — Paul Hawken
The generations before you failed. They didnâ€™t stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life is a miracle… — Paul Hawken
The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government… — Diane Watson
I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men; they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed to find success… — Robert Baden-Powell

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