#standing

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. ↗

— David Gerrold

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Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols. ↗

— Paul Getty

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Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given. ↗

— Mother Teresa

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For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to? ↗

— Jim Hodges

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Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land. ↗

— Roland Joffe

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Character is long-standing habit. ↗

— Plutarch

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The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding. ↗

— Willie Dixon

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The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

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In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while. ↗

— George Grosz

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