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Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst


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Values provide perspective in the best of times and worst.
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DONALD LYNN FROST It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
CHARLES DICKENS It's funny how the worst of times brings on the best of times,
JIMMY WHITE The WORST of Times is a Stepping Stone to the BEST of Times.
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GARY DAVID GOLDBERG We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.
DALEY THOMPSON Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.
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it's the same old thing in
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As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone
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CHARLES STANLEY The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's natur...
CHARLES SPURGEON It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in...
CHARLES DICKENS There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find t...
CHARLES STANLEY I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
LARRY CHARLES Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
CHARLES DUHIGG The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can...
CHARLES DICKENS I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secure...
CHARLES KENNEDY There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
CHARLES DICKENS Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee...
CHARLES DICKENS There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exac...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon...
CHARLES BUXTON Iron hand in a velvet glove.
CHARLES V It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
CHARLES STUDD