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To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed. Nat Turner

Religion, Mind, Thoughts, Attention

There are thousands of ragas, and they are all connected with different times of the day, like sunrise or night or sunset. It is all based on 72 of what we call 'mela' or scales. And we have principally nine moods, ranging from peacefulness to praying, or the feeling of emptiness you get by sitting by the ocean. Ravi Shankar

Sunset, Day, Ocean, Sunrise, Night, You

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. - Joseph Conrad

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. Joseph Conrad

Women, Woman, Men, Difficult, Task

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. - Josh Billings

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. Josh Billings

Good, Laughter, Feeling Good, Place

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn. Germaine Greer

Love, Women, Woman, Men, Loving, Thought

I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money. Patrick Henry

Money, Commonwealth, Many, Our, Had

The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212. O. Henry

Women, Good, Children, Weather, Men

I've long said that if Canada has a role on the world stage, it's principally as a role model, a demonstration that people of all types can get together and live in peace and harmony, which is something we really do most of the time here. Robert J. Sawyer

Live, Time, Together, Peace, People

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. Jonathan Swift

Love, Man, Hate, Animal, John, Although

If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless. Antonin Scalia

Good, Experience, People, Constitution

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Spiritual, Political, First, Necessity

The marooned friend is one of the best-known scams, principally because it's the one that dodges the spam filter most often. It comes from someone you know but often only tangentially. It's since become - hands down - one of my favourite scams. James Veitch

Friend, Hands, You, Down, Know, Someone

In plants, vitamin K is found principally in all kinds of green leaves; leaves which have grown in the dark and therefore have not formed chlorophyll are poor sources. Henrik Dam

Plants, Green, Dark, Poor, Found, Grown

I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard. Steven Spielberg

Me, You, Divorce, Things, Catch, Because

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly. John le Carre

Fly, Language, Literature, Be Prepared

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president. Carly Fiorina

President, Policy, Just, Even, Fiscal

Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things. Andrew Weil

Day, I Am, Travel, People, Doing, Long

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing. Gary Oldman

Funny, Play, Piano, Because, Been, Thing

It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art. Jerry Saltz

Art, Wake Up, Picture, Portrait, Museum

I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision. Mario Vargas Llosa

Life, Love, My Life, Precision, Stories

There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. Of those four, the first three were all published principally in science-fiction magazines. They were preaching to the converted. Robert J. Sawyer

Science, Three, Science Fiction, First

It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid. Bill Ackman

People, Believe, Top, Hispanic, Super

The first session of the Congress of the United States under the Constitution was devoted principally to the problems of immediate revenues and administrative and judicial organization. Charles A. Beard

Organization, Problems, Constitution

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design. Daniel Keys Moran

Debt, Design, Republican, Country

Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure. Daniel Barenboim

Nature, Music, Harmony, Structure, Been

I have such sister compassion for women in uniform in life, principally, because now I know how incredibly uncomfortable those uniforms are on top of all the other things they're dealing with that are far more important. Janet Varney

Life, Women, Compassion, Sister, Uniform

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