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As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn… — Calvin Coolidge
The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind… — George Washington
Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court. .… — Peter Burwash
I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. And I hate flying.… — Barbara Park
Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those… — J C Ryle
To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine.A splendid night it was . . . .In the… — Li Bai
The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it overflows with comfort.… — Charles Spurgeon
The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one… — Leonardo da Vinci
She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears;… — Virginia Woolf
After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go,… — Joe Meno
The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet… — Winston Churchill
Working-girls, in pairs and groups and swarms, loitered by these windows, choosing their future boudoirs from some resplendent display which included even a man's silk… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse… — W. Somerset Maugham
You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities. — Wayne Swan
Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed. — Quintus Ennius
The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God, as God is… — Swami Vivekananda
Christ's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion; and the stone is not removed out of its… — Samuel Rutherford
That will be the position I will be in as long as I'm on earth--that is, seeking the right path that God would have laid… — Sarah Palin
God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid… — Tracy Kidder
And I'm not getting laid! What am I doing wrong? — Bill Hicks
The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. — Iris Murdoch
I said to this priest: 'Am I expected to believe that if I went out and had an affair that God was really going to… — Diana Dors

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