Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home.
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
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The pro-abortion lobbyists are so hot for this bill. We expect them to bring it up for an amendment.
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Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces. Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.
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Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie; and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it.
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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.
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No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
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Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.
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The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.
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There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I' That's where courage comes in.
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I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain.
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Cheerleaders are dancers who have gone retarted.
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Torrance: Have you ever seen a cheerleading competition? ... ESPN cameras all around, thousands of people cheering...' Cliff: You mean there's people... cheering... the cheerleaders? Torrance: (Sarcastically) That's right! Lots of people!
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The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.
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I can't help it, she said, pulling a long face, It's them pills I took, to bring it off, she said....
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Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything
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Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.
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Cheerleaders are dancers that have gone retarded
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Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
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If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.
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When you're born you don't bring it with you; when you die you can't take it with you.
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Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
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