"Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud the preservation of its instruments."
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"I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them."
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"Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak -- like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support -- something that ought to be arrested."
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"The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at."
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"I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!"
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"Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it."
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"Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker."
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"While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological."
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"Politicians are always saying that they are in support of Iraqi citizens and now they are increasing the price of petrol. We were oppressed for 35 years. We are like a sick patient who is in need of care, and they are increasing prices"
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"My beard towards heaven, I feel my nape support / The back of my head, I grow the breast of a harpy / And my brush as it drips continually / Upon my face, makes it a gorgeous floor."
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"No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion."
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"I trust myself, and I trust Life to support and protect me."
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"I have a thorough understanding of nutrition, and I feed my body only foods that support health."
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"My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history."
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"There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my power. But it has the support of Scripture and, especially, of our Lord's own words; it has always been held by the Christian Church, and it has the support of reason."
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"We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us."
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"To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too."
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"I know that I am very fortunate. I have the support of my family and friends, I do a job I enjoy and I have Catherine."
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"I really want to see Israel. I would like to come and to express my support in the peace process there, and help the war orphans."
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"It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers. These actions were taken with the support and financing of the United States."
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