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Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. Euripides
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Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out. Judge Mills Lane
Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven. Athanasius
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. Samuel Johnson
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Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule. Charles Dickens
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I went from being the Terminator to being the governator. Arnold Schwarzenegger
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That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus. Sid Waddell
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I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty. Miuccia Prada
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities. R. Buckminster Fuller
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