#checked

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#change #coastlines #conflict #create #global

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights.If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ↗

— Erich Segal

#love #quietly #love

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

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The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#development #freedom #grass #grow #growing

Last I looked - and I'm not a candidate - but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to do with parties, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It's most states are winners take all. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#absolutely #absolutely nothing #candidate #checked #college

When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece. ↗

— Howard Staunton

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I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better. ↗

— David Strathairn

#better #burned #checked #easiest #ended

While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

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