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There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the… — Philip Caputo
This must be how the guys in Space Jam felt when MJ gave them their powers back through that old basketball. — Blake Griffin
If you catch them at 12 years old, which they are working very aggressively to do and you tell those children that if you have… — Scott Lively
Poor Fred - he's actually working on a typo, and somebody ought to tell him. Twice in the New Testament Jesus withered fig trees, Isaiah… — Thom Hartmann
We also heard the usual old nonsense that banning hunting would affect employment if we abolished crime we would put all the police out of… — Ann Widdecombe
'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can… — Robert Ruark
From the beginning, what I was connecting with in the gym was a universal energy source. I would just feel it flowing. Even when I… — Shawn Phillips
An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing. The species are the only… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy, was purified upon… — Irenaeus of Lyons
There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example,… — Bat Masterson
He [Jesus] came to save all through himself; all, I say, who through him are reborn in God: infants, and children, and youths, and old… — Irenaeus of Lyons
When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to keep up. When… — Ian Tattersall
When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge:… — George Eliot
It's the old story. You might be able to fool your coaches, or your teammates, or your opponents. But, you can never fool yourself in… — Unknown Author
It is never too late, no matter how old you get because anytime or any point in your life you can always have a chance… — George Eliot
I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I… — Bob Balaban
There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be… — Robert Foster Bennett
Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning… — Ernest Hemingway
When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia. — Tony Benn
Suppose you went to your priest and asked for help; he would refer you to the Bible. But if you went the next day to… — John Templeton
I can't wait to get out. It's been much too long, I don't like being home. I'd rather play. This tour is going to be… — Eric Carr
A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if… — Jean Paul
I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon… — Thomas Malory

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