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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'
T. S. Eliot

Mother, Human, Young

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.
Robert Mugabe

Change, Themselves, Bring

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
Sylvia Browne

Fear, Mind, Keep

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
Pope Paul VI

Strong, Help, Nothing

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
Woody Allen

Him, Dead, Horse

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'
Peter Drucker

Computers, Few, Though

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.
Steven Biko

Life, Time, Positive

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Rabindranath Tagore

Art, Real, Soul

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
Ambrose Bierce

Respect, Attitude, Majority

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Great, Nothing

People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.
Elizabeth Taylor

Dislike, Elizabeth, Liz

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
Blaise Pascal

God, Heart, Him

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
Robert E. Lee

Wisdom, Expect, Teach

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George Eliot

Hope, Often, Despair

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature, Great, God

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov

Nature, Someone, Human

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac Asimov

God, Today, Ignorance

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
Ambrose Bierce

Leaving, Spring, Trees

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
Ambrose Bierce

Joke, Clever, Seldom

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
Samuel Johnson

Her, Nation, She

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.
Tim Pawlenty

Women, Men, History

Call no man happy till he is dead.
Aeschylus

Happy, Dead, Till

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Giving, Give, Exercise

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

End, Thought, Slave

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
Charles Dickens

Men, Learn, Whole

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mean, May, Simply

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
Arthur C. Clarke

Earth, Ocean, Quite

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter Drucker

Work, Difficult, Making

When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
Janis Joplin

Love, Time, Sex

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.
Herman Cain

Problem, Sense, Until

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