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Charles W. Pickering

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“But what...
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to say about John Roberts. They were going to say that ...
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told my son this voluntarily, ‘We're...
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I thought I would just slide through. I naively told peop...
CHARLES PICKERING Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.
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DAVID PICKERING There is no doubt that if Iraq torches oil wells there will be a huge amount of business for these c...
DAN PICKERING They turn people away at Geyser Falls because it's so popular.
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BILLY PICKERING I don't think we received an eviction notice, and I don't think it's come to that point yet,
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THOMAS PICKERING there are no signs of stress in the financial sector.
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DAN PICKERING We had a duty to look at the best interests of the team going forward.
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DAVID PICKERING I'm obviously delighted that my leadership has been given such a vote of confidence by the membershi...
DAVID PICKERING He has made a huge difference both on and off the field.
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CHARLES W. LEADBEATER Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned.
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CHARLES W. CHESNUTT Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.
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CHARLES W. TOBEY In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social...
CHARLES W. ELIOT Worry and stress affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profo...
CHARLES W. MAYO There's time enough, but none to spare.
CHARLES W. CHESNUTT Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.
CHARLES W. ELIOT When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Da...
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CHARLES W. COLSON I can work for the Lord in or out of prison
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CHARLES W. ELIOT The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.
CHARLES W. ELIOT The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.
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CHARLES W. ELIOT Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideolog...
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CHARLES W. COLSON People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, ar...
CHARLES W. COLSON The essence of tragedy is to know the end.
CHARLES W. FERGUSON Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of coun...
CHARLES W. ELIOT As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in...
CHARLES W. CHESNUTT Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
CHARLES W. CHESNUTT It's part of the buzz of the city among Christians. It wouldn't surprise me that it got to George Bu...
CHARLES W. COLSON John Kerry was a thorn in our flesh. He was very articulate, a credible leader of the opposition. He...
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ROY L. PICKERING JR. It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise momen...
ROY L. PICKERING JR. On occasion he would think back to the fiercest passion it had been his pleasure to experience and r...
ROY L. PICKERING JR. Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same.
ROY L. PICKERING JR. ...the locale did not make him think of her, nor did most things. He felt no negativity about the ti...
ROY L. PICKERING JR. Life was a swirl of mysteries, each one waiting to be plucked up and explored, but not necessarily s...
ROY L. PICKERING JR. Once you break someone’s heart, you are forever its master.
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W. HULL When you come right down to it, the ground you stand on is the ground you stand on.
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W. HULL Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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W. AVERELL HARRIMAN Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reve...
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W. C. FIELDS Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. FIELDS The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
W. H. DAVIES If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
W. EDWARDS DEMING Quality is pride of workmanship.
W. EDWARDS DEMING It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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RALPH W. SOCKMAN Love is the outreach of self toward completion.
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W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
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W. EDWARDS DEMING You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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W. EDWARDS DEMING Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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W. EDWARDS DEMING The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
W. EDWARDS DEMING We are here to make another world.
W. EDWARDS DEMING People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if th...
W. EDWARDS DEMING I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
W. C. FIELDS There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.
W. C. FIELDS Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butle...
W. C. FIELDS If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn f...
W. C. FIELDS I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm ...
W. C. FIELDS Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for th...
W. C. FIELDS A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
W. C. FIELDS No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.
W. C. FIELDS The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
W. C. FIELDS It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
W. C. FIELDS If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
W. C. FIELDS Writing is the supreme solace.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, on...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of ligh...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM