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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

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A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

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The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were. ↗

— David Brinkley

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Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer. ↗

— Jan Hammer

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People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life. ↗

— Charles Buck

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When I'm up against a wall, that's when Billy Mays performs best. ↗

— Billy Mays

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