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"The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all."
"Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated, put into circulation, and set to work. Power cannot be exercised unless a certain economy of discourses of truth functions in, on the basis of, and thanks to, that power.""
"I was extremely lucky. I had some huge crashes and yet I am still here, thanks to God."
"The spirit is what guides my life, and I'm humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it's something to be lived."
"For this relief, much thanks"
"Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]"
"The hard part about living in the present is it forces you to abandon hope for the future. Thanks for nothing, now."
"Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation."
"Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor"
"Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance."
"The poorest service is repaid with thanks."
"Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny."
"We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience."
"Thanks are justly due for boons unbought"
"A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one."
"The world thanks you for sharing Nelson Mandela with us."
"Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I've already had, my face pretty much maintains itself."
"I just had a responsibility to [Taylor Swift] as a friend you know, and I mean thanks for being so cool about it."
"Give thanks for what had been given to you, However little. Be pure, never falter."
"You can say 'Thanks,' and you can say 'Thanks a Million' - but any number in between?"
