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I can definitely take more off my world record - a lot more. I have no doubt about that. I'm by no means putting pressure… — Unknown Author
The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance… — Arthur Conan Doyle
From the day of the Declaration...they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The… — John Quincy Adams
Nearly dying brings you closer to living. There's a thin border; you feel yourself cross it, going back to the land of the living, going… — Jackie Kay
Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china. — Rebecca West
Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one. — Raymond Burr
Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden… — A. Whitney Brown
When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting. — Oscar Wilde
The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle.… — Simone Weil
Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have. — Tom Krause
Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished for food, who… — Mary Ritter Beard
A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is… — Ben Hecht
Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can. — Mark Twain
Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of… — Charles Babbage
Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are… — Martin Rees
We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way. — Frank Moore Colby
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather. — Benjamin Franklin
If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe our compulsion to… — Robert Farrar Capon
An honest man nearly always thinks justly. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What comes from oneself is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link. — Eduardo Chillida
The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible. — H. L. Mencken
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or… — C. Wright Mills
And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray. — John Keble
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I've been smoking nearly 50 years now. I just don't feel safe breathing anything I can't see! — Dave Beard

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