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Where are the heirs? They should be here. They have been completely absent.


George Butler

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DEYTH BANGER They should have been here days ago, ... Hell, yeah!
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RAY LEPONE Where fear is present, excuses are present and Where fear is absent, excuses are absent.
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KEVIN DOLL Women are what completely inspire me, and they have also been my downfall.
CARA DELEVINGNE That would make me a completely absent father and that's unacceptable,
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SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should...
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HENRY KISSINGER The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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SOURCE UNKNOWN And what do they want!?
DEYTH BANGER Too many men are absent at the crucial time when they are needed.
ANTHONY ROBERTS This is a very pragmatic approach which was completely absent for the last four years.
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MARINE GENPETER PACE And they shall by no means be absent from it.
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STEVEN WRIGHT While shadows are absent of light . . . They also an aspect of the light.
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BILL SELF Scars show us where we have been, they do not dictate where we are going.
DAVID ROSSI Books understand me, but humans don't understand me. They are bad friends books are forever as well ...
DEYTH BANGER My eyes were closed, they're open now
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LISA STONE There should be car tracks here, but there's not one, ... I'm sure [the state police] are vigilant i...
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FRANCIE RENFRO We don't have any idea where they are. They could be anywhere.
BILL MISKELL They should not have an embassy here in the United States.
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TOMMY DOUGLAS Things should have been
so different
to the way they are
now.
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MAJ JOSIAH BUNTING they are always tough here and have been known to pull out some tricks.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...
SAMUEL BUTLER One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underg...
SAMUEL BUTLER A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to ...
SAMUEL BUTLER The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
SAMUEL BUTLER