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Tag Name "Placed" (565)

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Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
Jamie Raskin
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If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man’s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of those who really understand that they are slaves of nature.
Swami Vivekananda
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No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.
Juliet Stevenson
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It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than scenes, except those who gave rise to them.
Edith Wharton
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Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.
Herman E. Daly
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I said, If I was a Negro girl- He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. We can't think of changing our skin, he said. Change the world-that's how we gotta think.
Sue Monk Kidd
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Sometimes an obstacle is placed in front of us by God for the purpose of upgrading our vision and experiencing our dream at a higher level. The obstacle can only be here by permission of God, so it has to help us become what He is seeing about us.
Graham Cooke
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...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.
Abraham Lincoln
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I am placed in situations with opportunities in those situations that others are not. I don't believe that that is happenstance. I believe that there is a God that has a plan for me.
Ronald Perelman
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When you're placed in a world where survival is the main focus, a lot of that other stuff, like wrongdoings in the past, become obsolete. You have to focus on the here and now. Yes, there is tension between the two of them.
Alycia Debnam Carey
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Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual.
Theo van Doesburg
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Never place a period where God has placed a comma.
Gracie Allen
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I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.
Amy Tan
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I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.
John Green
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When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of teaching them how to regain His presence. Our Father promised a Savior to redeem them from their fallen condition.
Ezra Taft Benson
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To you, the people of Flint, I say, as I have before, I am sorry and I will fix it. No citizen of this great state should endure this kind of catastrophe. Government failed you. Federal, state and local leaders by breaking the trust you placed in us.
Rick Snyder
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If a work of art is placed before me, I believe I can enjoy it but I do not overlook the fact, that Art is one thing, another thing Amusement and that people do like amusements, and will run after it.
George Henry Lewes
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I realize that labels are placed upon an individual to simplify him or her, but it is impossible to capture the essence of an individual by a few words.
Joanna Lohman
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I trust everything, under God, to habit, upon which, in all ages, the lawgiver, as well as the schoolmaster, has mainly placed his reliance,--habit, which makes everything easy, and casts all difficulties upon the deviation from the wonted course.
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
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Two women placed together makes cold weather.
William Shakespeare
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When the heart becomes empty, the mimbar of the Divine Oneness is placed therein and the sultan of gnosis sits upon it.
Ibn Ata Allah
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Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.
Francis Alexander Durivage
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