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"I give my all to live a life that is worthy of the favor I have received. I don't always hit the mark, but I continue to press towards it each day. New mercies every morning... Give thanks for that."
"Thanks to the internet, I buy lots of music, but thanks to my easily distracted nature, I forget about half of it!"
"Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You'll never get any thanks for hitting soft."
"He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by."
"Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change."
"Well, thanks for not shooting anyone, I guess", said Marcus. "My contribution was to somehow refrain from peeing myself. You can thank me later."
"Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'."
"I'm really proud and happy that we finally got it together thanks to Tweeterhead, which is the company that put it together for me. It's something that I always wanted to do, but really did not have the time to work on myself"
"I'm not putting them on,” said old Archie in indignation. “I like a healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks."
"Thanks to the Court's decision, only clean Indians (meaning upper caste Hindu Indians) or colored people other than Kaffirs, can now travel in the trains."
"I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans."
"No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred."
"Most importantly, it´s in giving thanks."
"Sarah: "Not bad. You look almost human." Lena: "Thanks." Sarah: "I said almost." Lena: "Well, then, almost thanks."
"People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least."
"Thanks be to God we lived so long and did so much good."
"Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never happen, and there is no paradox."
"Everything here is alive thanks to the living of everything else."
"Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit."
"A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks."
