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“I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five's a charm?”

Two Given Chance Numbers Five Wife Type Months Right Now Charm Marrying

Author:Vince Neil

“Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.”

Two Values Given Objects Relation Quantity Precise

Book:An Outline of the Science of Political Economy

Source: An Outline of the Science of Political Economy

“I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it'.”

Want Needs Two Ideas Artist Given Half Type Lucky Come Up Treatment I Want You Other Half

Author:Steve Sabol

“My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from four feet. I'm playing only about once or twice a month. Full-time job. Full-time father. Full-time blonde.”

Two Play Jobs Father Given Four Air Feet Months Lows All Time Blonde Full Time Jobs All Time Low

Author:Jack Wagner

“A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.”

“Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two - a brother and sister.”

Years Two Care Given Animal Successful Brother Cat Sick Australia Brothers And Sisters Foster Care

Author:Jason Gann

“It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.”

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Author:Immanuel Velikovsky

“Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.”

“These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in two elections at the risk of their lives, preparing for a third, writing and ratifying a constitution granting more freedoms than exist in any country in the entire Arab Middle East. The secret is out, There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.”

“Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily given for the future.”

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Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20 years? Set yourself up well. Get the things you want - God exists in the material and in the spiritual.”

Ifs Want Giving Years Wells Two Spiritual Given Materials Yoga Karma Intense Two Years Selfless God Exists Karma Yoga Selfless Giving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I was given five injections. That evening I developed extremely high fever. I was trembling. My arms and my legs were swollen, huge size. Mengele and Dr. Konig and three other doctors came in the next morning. They looked at my fever chart, and Dr. Mengele said, laughingly, 'Too bad, she is so young. She has only two weeks to live ..'”

Said Two Young Three Next Given Morning Five Week Huge Arms Doctors Size Legs Evening Drs Fever Two Weeks Trembling Swollen Injection

Author:Eva Mozes Kor

“You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, "The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading.”

Ifs Knows Two Eye Choices Reading Given Hell Havens Criticism Critical Awful Reform Panic Frantic Glare Two Choices

Author:Saul Bellow

“The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread."”

Two Might Names Given Wind Fame Patterns Bread Instance Thirty Motive Given Names

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Nothing can better express the feelings of the scientist towards the great unity of the laws of nature than in Immanuel Kant's words: "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing awe: the stars above me and the moral law within me."... Would he, who did not yet know of the evolution of the world of organisms, be shocked that we consider the moral law within us not as something given, a priori, but as something which has arisen by natural evolution, just like the laws of the heavens?”

Knows World Mind Two Feelings Law Given Heaven Stars Natural Moral Evolution Scientist Unity Two Things Awe Organisms Shocked Laws Of Nature Moral Law

Author:Konrad Lorenz

“So long as you believe in a Two-Faced God, you will create ecstasy and terror side by side. You have imagined a God who is the epitome of both, and by telling yourself that you are created in the Image and Likeness of God, you have given yourself the moral authority to demonstrate both. You love and hate in the name of God.”

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Book:Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge

Source: Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge

“I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.”

Ifs Two Ideas Different Three Given Attention Extraordinary Manage Attention Span Best Gift Different Ideas

Author:Paul Newman

“During my stage shows, I am so energetic. It's constant! I just don't stand still. I actually got given a mic stand from my team to say 'Just calm down. Stand still for at least two songs.' But now I just pick it up and walk around with it.”

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Author:Jessie J

“We can already say emphatically that there is no longer any solid basis for dating any book of the New Testament after about A.D. 80, two full generations before the date between 130 and 150 given by the more radical New Testament critics of today.”

Two Book Today Given Generations Dating Bases Critics Radical Testament New Testament

Author:William F. Albright

“In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.”

Firsts I Can Two Whole Facts Shows Remember Night Choices Given Wish Careers Performances Critics Evening

Author:Richard McCabe

“Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.”

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Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

“We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.”

Should Two Real Helping Hands Given Gratitude Charity Real Life Vocabulary Wipe

Book:Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona

Source: Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona

“A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.”

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Author:William Gibson

“Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded.”

Men Two Given Sides Army Winter Hunger Wounded Machinery Freeze

Book:Selected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: Selected Poems of Stephen Spender

“When you peel back the layers of the anti-choice motivation, it always comes back to two things: What is the nature and purpose of human sexuality? And second, what is the role of women in the world? Sex and the role of women are inextricably linked, because if you can separate sex from procreation, you have given women the ability to participate in society on an equal basis with men.”

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Author:Gloria Feldt

“I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll use the rest of the miles you're given.”

World Persons Two Use Given Walks Half Wonder Steps Five Thousand Lifetime Average Miles Around The World Sixty Thousand Miles Half Time

Book:You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

“Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?”

“Awaken your heart to kindness and mercy for the people and love and tenderness for them. Never, never act with them like a predatory beast which seeks to be satiated by devouring them, for the people fall into two categories: they are either your brethren in faith or your kindred in creation.”

People Should Heart Has Beens Two Fall Given Kindness Creation Authority Mercy And Love Command Beast Categories Invites Tenderness Calamity Brethren Kindred Devouring Predatory

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“It seemed to me that I now saw the Star Maker in two aspects: as the spirit's particular creative mood that had given rise to me, the cosmos; and also, most dreadfully, as something incomparably greater than creativity, namely as the eternally achieved perfection of the absolute spirit. Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.”

Two Spirit Given Stars Creativity Creative Saws Greater Particular Aspect Perfection Absolutes Mood Cosmos Makers Barren

Author:Olaf Stapledon