#tract

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

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In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#affairs #against #any #attract #bad

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#disgust #disorder #distract #doth #life

I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots. ↗

— Neil Cavuto

#i #idiots #known #ugly

Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#binds #blunders #friendship #honesty #mushrooms

Declare this smite time, extracting precious gems and wholly hours you share to fruitcake a friend so dear. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#declare #extracting #friend #gems #hours

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#contracted #far #ills #mind #more

Older women have always been attracted to me. ↗

— Corey Clark

#attracted #been #me #older #older women

The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me. ↗

— Glenn Close

#best #fatal #hung #i #kitchen

The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me. ↗

— Kate Capshaw

#becomes #me #moment #risky #says