#calls

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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I know how many days in which I have just answered e-mail, had three phone calls and a two hour lunch. Poof, gone. They are not infrequent. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

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I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

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My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know. ↗

— Howard Finster

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Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain. ↗

— Jon Stewart

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If Mr. Selwyn calls again, show him up; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him; and if I am dead he would like to see me. ↗

— Henry Fox

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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ↗

— Max Stirner

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There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

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