People can commend the weather without envy. - William Shenstone

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Sustainable development is a fundamental break that's going to reshuffle the entire deck. There are companies today that are going to dominate in the future simply because they understand that.

William Shenstone

People can commend the weather without envy.

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When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.

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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

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Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

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This is the deadening consensus that crosses party lines, that dominates our major media, and that is strangling the liberty and prosperity that were once the birthright of Americans. Dissenters who tell their fellow citizens what is really going on are subject to smear campaigns that, like clockwork, are aimed at the political heretic. Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

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T. H. White

There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had too much to drink and did not really trust themselves. These gave out a smell of must and solid brownness which was most secure.

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Supplementing the far, remote Glory-of-God expression in his face, the glory-of-doughnuts shone suddenly very warmly.

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Stephanie Coontz

Increasingly, men are realizing exactly that - that having an educated, economically independent partner reduces the pressure on them to be the sole provider. Many men are also beginning to understand that participating in housework and childcare can be rewarding. Women with higher education and
or earnings are so much less likely than other women to divorce, that by age 40, they are more likely to be married than any other group of women.

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