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Tag Name "Drain" (140)

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I think Donald Trump was successful in capturing drain the swamp, change Washington, a big screw-you to the status quo - which has already been ironic since election night. But it was one of his big messages, and there's a broader sense of how to address the feelings of so many people left behind by the economy.
Neera Tanden
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People inspire you, or they drain you - pick them wisely.
Hans Froði Hansen
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So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.
Olivia Wilde
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You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
Henry Adams
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The experience I had all those 40 years of working on Broadway and working on television, I bring it to students and I let them kind of drain me dry but they all feel at the end of the class that they are getting so much out of it. The students grow in my classroom because they feel safe. They don't feel like they're going to be yelled at.
Patricia Mauceri
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
J. I. Packer
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Serious and intense people, they drain you. But someone who's an idiot, like myself, they're fun. You either hate me or you love me.
Pauly Shore
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The worst thing that can be done to children is to drain their energy while correcting them.
James Redfield
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He himself will go into the drain and take his boy in his own lap. He will clean his dress, clean his clothes, clean his body and afterward he will say, My boy, you should walk carefully.
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
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There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid in her stomach because her heart no longer knew what to do with them.
Jodi Picoult
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I give so much of myself on Sunday. I drain all the life out of myself out there. I get paid to play, to win, to give the city pride, so maybe everybody can forget for a little while how hard life is.
Randall Cunningham
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Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.
John Dramani Mahama
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I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.
Reif Larsen
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Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them.
John Steinbeck
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Day and night my thoughts incline To the blandishments of wine, Jars were made to drain, I think Wine, I know, was made to drink.
Richard Henry Stoddard
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Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines
John Warren Kindt
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Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.
Rita Mae Brown
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A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.
Joyce Cary
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Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.
Julia Cameron
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You know, a huge drain on California's economy is the illegal immigrants. We need to close the borders.
Larry Flynt
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People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way
Frederick Lenz
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Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If you are a successful person and you let a lot of people in and around your life, they can drain your power. It won't go to them, but it will leave you.
Frederick Lenz
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Why should [Uncle Sam] send 20 billion dollars down there [South America], which is going to go down the drain every time you have a racial in - incident in this country?
Malcolm X
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