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John Geddes

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J.R. RIM Despite the gentlemanly kiss, a ferocity burned behind his gaze promising something primal.
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ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.
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One day you are just a memb...
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LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
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MORIHEI UESHIBA For me, life is a bowl of cherries.
SISSY SPACEK Life is a right, not collateral or casual.
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You don't even care, do yo...
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GLORIA SWANSON All of life is a foreign country.
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ANGUS GEDDES A positive, was their cost-to-income ratio. There has definitely been some progress on costs.
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GREG GEDDES It's a great win for us, but it also cost us.
DOYLE GEDDES They had some pin-point accuracy and good grief, that goal over Robert — nothing he could do.
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DOYLE GEDDES Ultimately, we were very happy with the second half.
DOYLE GEDDES She had one of the best games of any of the girls out there today.
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DOYLE GEDDES We were frustrated at the half, but the second half made up for it.
DOYLE GEDDES We just didn't finish. If we finish, this game isn't close.
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CLAIRE GEDDES My apologies for the late clarification of this agreement.
GREG GEDDES The threat of a strike is certainly going to raise a lot of anxiety for Ottawa residents.
GREG GEDDES There's a real cost to taxpayers if those plans are introduced.
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JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
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JOHN CLAYTON In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
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JOHN CLAYTON What is the origin of God?
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JOHN CLAYTON The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
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JOHN LITHGOW Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD