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I like to help kids, work with kids in detention homes. Don't tell a kid what's right and wrong. He knows what's right and wrong. Find out what his attitude and his aptitude are; try to help him where he wants to go. Evel Knievel
apt doubts odd persons terms
It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation. Frederick Pollock
apt gutter idealists ivory straight walk
When they come downstairs from their ivory towers, idealists are apt to walk straight into the gutter
apt enforced mankind prejudiced strongly
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom. Robert Hall
apt intelligence people work
The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.
apt drunken stranger total unlike women
Unlike men, who are apt to stab a total stranger in a drunken brawl or run amuck with a high-powered rifle, we women usually kill our intimates: We kill our children, our husbands, our lovers.
apt curiously feeble grain mixed
We must not inquire too curiously into motives... They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light. George Eliot
apt concerns great pity smaller themselves
'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth. Mary Astell
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We have a number of candidates for captain and we will be assessing leadership qualities and their aptitude for the job during the squad sessions over the next few weeks. Frank Hadden
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He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination. Andrew Lang
drunken squeeze starting
We're starting to put the squeeze on drunken drivers.
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He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than illumination
drunken man rather statistics support uses
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts, for support rather than illumination.
drunken group last second
But this is the second one we've had - a group of drunken Scotsmen stole the last one! Chris Neil
drunken night sleep
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
drunken man uses
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
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Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lamp posts... for support rather than illumination.
drunken people sort time
It was just one of those quirky, sort of naughty, sort of wild, sort of, you know, drunken things that people will do from time to time. Rob Lowe
stranger truth
Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful. Mira Nair
stranger reason absurd
There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned. Charlotte Bronte
stranger retiring pauses
Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire. Charles Dickens
stranger
The truth, as always, will be far stranger. Arthur C. Clarke
stranger
I was a stranger and you took me in. -Joji G. Shoji, d. 1921 Neil Gaiman
stranger imagine empty
If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder. John Scalzi
stranger states let-me
Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious. M. Scott Peck
strangers
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too. Barack Obama
stranger conversation fanatics
It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public. Alain de Botton
total
And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me. Yanni
total
If you have a child, you're improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies. Sarah Jessica Parker
totally whatever
We're not the same team. We're totally different. Whatever it is, we've got to keep it up. Tubby Smith
totally
We were totally inept, to put it bluntly. Larry Coker
totally
(Interstate) 70 is usually worse, so (U.S. Highway) 6 is standard. But if 6 is totally clogged you can always go Colfax.
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A natural. A total natural. And I like you. Simon Cowell
totally
The real breakthroughs will be in a totally different category.
totally
When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful. Jordi Molla
total
When I got the assessment, I went into total meltdown.
unlike
Unlike that other convention, what you are witnessing is real. George H. W. Bush
unlike
Unlike most of you, I am not a nut.
unlike
Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia. Tina Brown
unlikely persecution
Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution. Charles Krauthammer
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If you don't work very hard, it is extremely unlikely that you will be a good trader. Bruce Kovner
unlike
The orbs have probably sold better through catalogs because they can be categorized unlike at most stores. David Rose
unlikely
For those two reasons, his candidacy is, if not doomed, unlikely too succeed. Ian Stewart
unlikely
It is unlikely that reform-minded politicians will have a lot to say in the new government.
unlikely organized organized-religion
It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure. Mary Douglas
women wore
Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously. Bella Abzug
women
So much of what I do is about inspiring and empowering women. Bobbi Brown
women
I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart. Ralph Lauren
women work
It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged. Tamara Mellon
women
I find that women... deal with immigration differently. And I'm interested in that. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
women
Do I look like one of the most dangerous women in Britain? Come on! Nicola Sturgeon
women charity fool
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know. Lawrence Durrell
women
After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women. Nancy Pelosi
women
We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence.