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Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.
Robert Morgan

Maybe, Distance, Nostalgia

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
Franz Kafka

God, Nuts, Crack

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell

Government, Democracy, Oppressor

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
Stevie Wonder

Music, Song, Lives

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
William Cowper

Life, Variety, Spice

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
William Hazlitt

Pain, Concern, Fellow

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
James Russell Lowell

Nothing, Return, Pleasures

The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
Gore Vidal

President, Rise, Behaviour

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
Henry Rollins

Music, Strange, Sense

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
Eric Hoffer

Feeling, Destiny, Nation

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
Bob Newhart

Laughter, Step, Move

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
Roseanne Barr

Women, Power, Learn

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
John D. Rockefeller

Coming, Pleasure, Dividends

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Water, Tree, Running

Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart.
Steve Irwin

Live, Heart, Someone

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
James Madison

Personal, Social, Natural

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
Gore Vidal

Life, Sex, Nothing

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Virginia Woolf

Mind, Body, Takes

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Looking, Reflection, Face

I love the confidence that makeup gives me.
Tyra Banks

Love, Confidence, Makeup

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
William Hazlitt

Pain, Concern, Millions

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
William Hazlitt

Courage, Others, Meet

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
Sophocles

Gratitude, Birth

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

Feeling, Ourselves, Surprise

So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Time, Alone, Spiritual

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Moses Hadas

Experience, Knowledge, Greatest

I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
Lalu Prasad Yadav

Life, Funny, Work

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
Aesop

End, Others, Principles

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
Nikita Khrushchev

Nature, Rather, Support

I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that wealth gives you.
Jon Stewart

Care, Wealth, Seems

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