"We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much."
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"People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable."
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"But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth? If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much."
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"Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility."
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"All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?"
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"My work is really the accumulation of these different moods that I've had throughout my life and where they've taken me. I start looking back, and I think, I've actually created a life out of all this, out of these changes of mood. They've pushed me through all these years, and I seem to have a semblance of a life, and if I look very carefully, I can see some thematic design to it. There's some continuity."
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"What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration."
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"A large portion of the Earth's land area is taken up by old varsity jackets."
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"To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo."
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"[Pope Francis ] is taken a selfie!He's a tremendous breath of fresh air."
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"All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of."
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"I am thrilled to be a member of the Kobalt family. I've never felt so taken care of on every level. As a songwriter, publisher and friend...there is no better home than Kobalt!"
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"Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us."
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"Don King is a damn sleezebag. King is nothing but a strong-arm man. He has taken his gangsterism and put it into boxing."
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"Being offended by things is the world's big hobby at the moment. It's almost taken over from wearing goatee beards."
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"I wanted to be John Cleese. It took me some time to realise that the job was taken."
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"It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. Now, as you look through this document you'll see that I've underlined all the major decisions I ever made to make the stand out. They're all indexed and cross-referenced. See? All I can suggest is that if you take decisions that are exactly opposite to the sort of decisions that I've taken, then maybe you won't finish up at the end of your life" --she paused, and filled her lungs for a good should--"in a smelly old cave like this!"
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"All my first dates are interrupted by my fame because every picture taken is a fan that you can gain."
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"People are saying, "I have a right to my opinion. Don't just keep condescending, telling me what to think." There's something slightly liberating about that, but also it lends itself to being taken advantage of, because in come the demagogues."
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"We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending."
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