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George Worthington

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The exercises seem almost unrelated to vision - at times, it doesn't seem right.
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I don't see these political events having that much impact.
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Colors make the most mundane things seem almost magical.
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People never fail to disappoint.
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He didn’t seem at all upset at being almost knocked to the ground.
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Almost every day last week they were coming in. Children seem to be more susceptible.
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Don't disappoint your horoscope.
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Don't disappoint the world,
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They do things that seem almost impossible, and they do it beautifully.
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Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.
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They seem to almost reject my proposal out of hand, and it's a bitter disappointment to me.
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I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.
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I call it calculated blandness,
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INEXPEDIENT, adj. Not calculated to advance one's interests.
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calculated and craven political stunt.
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He's very calculated, very precise.
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But that's a calculated guess.
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This is one crowd I really don't want to disappoint.
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Stocks with this kind of valuation cannot afford to disappoint.
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Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
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He leads by example, and you don't want to disappoint him.
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Hate to disappoint, but no feathers. I came to Earth stripped naked.
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The most heinous crime is to disappoint those who trust in you
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For invented gods invariably disappoint those who worship them.
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I'm sorry to disappoint you, Congressman. I had no role in this issue.
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Never in LIfe will you disappoint yourself if you stay true to you!
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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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My fans are so important to me, and I would never want to disappoint them.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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My final three were George Mason, George Mason, George Mason. I'm glad I chose George Mason.
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It's important to understand the formula under which your benefits would be calculated.
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the false reports are, of course, calculated to do the agency severe harm.
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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
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Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe.
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Our audience expects CNN to rise to an occasion like this and we will not disappoint,
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I'm sorry to disappoint you, but my experience belongs to me, not the collective bloody unconscious.
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The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.
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Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
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Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.
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If you really think you love yourself, why would you hate life to disappoint yourself?
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I didn't want to disappoint the fans and give them something that was second-rate.
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What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.
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As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.
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I promise I will not disappoint you if you elect me.
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Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.
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Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
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Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
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Everything we do in emergency services is a calculated risk,
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Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
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Big Brother is watching you.
GEORGE ORWELL
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELL
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
GEORGE ORWELL
I intend to live life, not just exist.
GEORGE TAKEI
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL
Good writing is like a windowpane.
GEORGE ORWELL
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
GEORGE ORWELL
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing ...
GEORGE ORWELL
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in ...
GEORGE ORWELL
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than othe...
GEORGE ORWELL
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit f...
GEORGE ORWELL
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are ...
GEORGE ORWELL
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELL
I've been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nic...
HELEN GEORGE
Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
GEORGE LUCAS