"History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched……" — M. King Hubbert

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• Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant… — Dale Carnegie
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• Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination . — Dan Miller
• Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations. — Maya Angelou
• There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all.… — Learned Hand
• Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for… — Maurice Maeterlinck
• Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath. — Jonathan Swift
• If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would… — Sachin Tendulkar

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