#case

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest. ↗

— Titus Livius

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Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

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My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

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Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I'm lucky enough that it's reasonably mild in my case. ↗

— Stephen Fry

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The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan's case, these demographic changes are taking place at a more rapid pace than any other country has ever experienced. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

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