"Whoever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea for nothing but to make him sick."
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"I don't want to grow up but I'm sick of not growing up - that way. I'll find a different way of not growing up. There's a better way of doing it than torturing your body."
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"A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick. --John Steinbeck to Adlai Stevenson"
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"I worked there [on Pontiac] three weeks, got really sick of it, went back home and joined the Air Force."
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"This Day, whate'er the Fates decree; Shall still be kept with Joy by me: This Day then, let us not be told, That you are sick, and I grown old"
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"He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret"
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"Visiting the sick is supposed to exhibit such great virtue that there are some people determined to do it whether the sick like it or not. ... All visitors everywhere are supposed to make plans to depart if they observe their hosts visibly wilting or in pain, but this is especially true at hospitals."
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"You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more."
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"Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it."
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"When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone."
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"My advice is if we can't replace Obamacare by ourselves, to go to the Democrats and say this. 10% of the sick people in this country drive 90 percent of the cost for all of us. Let's take those 10 percent of really sick people, put them in a federal managed care system so they'll get better outcomes, and save the private sector market if we can't do this by ourselves. That's a good place to start."
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"I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something could well happen to me at any time. I feel, though, that my cause is so right, so moral, that if I should lose my life, in some way it would aid the cause."
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"When some say that good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: "If you had health, you would have the use of all your limbs; but without health, the works of all your limbs are nothing"; and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs."
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"I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick."
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"You sick, twisted monster," Sabrina seethed at Pinocchio."
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"Playing sick. That is so hard to do. It has to be a total mental challenge, as well as the physical challenge."
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"A leader's first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty."
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"Your best changes from moment to moment, sick or well, tired or rested. Remember that you are an imperfect human being. There is no value to judging yourself for"
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"It's a different ballgame now, so that lets [teo] Macero out. He's always complainin', always sick."
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"I was working at a restaurant in L.A. when a producer came in. He said I should audition for this movie Cellular. I did, and I got the part. It actually makes me sick to tell that story because its obnoxious."
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