"The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today."
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"Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her."
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"The wild night is calling."
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"I'm prepared. I have a gun and I know how to shoot, and whoever comes calling without an invitation will get it in the rear end."
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"In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way."
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"Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come."
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"An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea."
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"I don't want them hip white people coming up to me and calling me no n - - or telling me n - - jokes. I don't like it."
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"A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling."
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"When people call me illegal, calling me illegal says more about you than it does about me."
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"I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger."
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"One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling."
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"If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless."
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"What is a personal calling? It is God's blessing, it is the path that God chose for you here on Earth. Whenever we do something that fills us with enthusiasm, we are following our legend. However, we don't all have the courage to confront our own dream."
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"If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black."
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"Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone."
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"In almost every thriller, a point is reached when someone, usually calling from a phone booth, telephones with a vital piece of information, which he cannot divulge by phone. By the time the hero arrives at the place where they had arranged to meet, the caller is dead, or too near death to tell. There is never an explanation for the reluctance of the caller to impart his message in the first place."
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"You always be calling her, she aint never answerin. You aint figured out I am the reason that she canceling"
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"As I unclutter my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my soul."
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"The Spanish press started calling me El Nino' when I was very small. Now, I have grown a little. The problem is, when I'm 30 years old, we'll have to come up with another one."
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