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"It is very difficult for somebody to get into his shoes. He is a cricketer who never compromised his dignity and always played with determination. –"

"You invest in companies with great long-term prospects."

"The politicians pontificate and manoeuvre with eloquent manifestos and pronouncements saying little about the challenges we must confront."

"When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it."

"“Handing this petition in to Downing Street was like taking a big load off my back. And now the load is with Tony Blair"

"Obsessed with tricking the girl, he had fallen into the trap he laid for her. Bitterly he recognised that he was always believing his own lies, caught in nets he had elaborately woven."

"He couldn't see a belt without hitting below it."

"Alicia Witt - Me Or New York"

"Faced with low productivity despite improved equipment, and with drift from the pits despite both higher wages and better amenities... a point seems to have been reached where the industry is in a moo…"

"To be rich is to give a smile with no expectation of return."

"The Class of 1858, to which Henry Adams belonged, was a typical collection of young New Englanders, quietly penetrating and aggressively commonplace; free from meannesses, jealousies, intrigues, enthu…"

"He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin."

"It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction."

"Man is a tool-using animal...Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all."

"Madhuri was crowned the queen of Bollywood and her star status reached a level where she was called the ‘female Amitabh Bachhan’. Her stage shows sold out and fans flocked to her shootings to catch a …"

"All things in Naples are arranged with as much civility as possible."

"have been involved in looting affrays in the streets of Tien-tsin. When they are not with their regiments they must be regarded by the inhabitants as a scourge."

"Fitzpatrick shall be the cause of greater slaughter to the rising generation than St. Patrick was to the snakes and toads of Ireland."

"We often hear, “Rape is rape, right?” No. A stranger forcing himself on a woman at knife point is different from a man and woman having sex while drunk and having regrets the morning. What is differen…"

"Never go to war with a noun. You will always lose."