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• I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Wrestling, Arms, Used

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• I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Acting, Kind

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• I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

  Robert Sheckley

  Hard Work, Writing, Self

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• I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.

  Marian McPartland

  Sometimes

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• I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

  Gustave Courbet

  Artist, Knowing, Quests

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• I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.

  Anjelica Huston

  Fighting, Men, Enough

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• My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army.

  Stuart Symington

  Father, Military, Army

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• I shot "Footloose" nearby and we used to hike. Very fond memories.

  Dianne Wiest

  Memories, Footloose, Used

  "Dianne Wiest at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival". Interview with Leslie Rigoulot, www.filmscouts.com. January 20, 1996.

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• I did, but I'm not real fond of giving interviews.

  Priscilla Presley

  Real, Giving, Interviews

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• I'm not fond of any of my films in an intimate way, but Gregory's Girl would be number 4 on my list.

  Bill Forsyth

  Girl, Numbers, Would Be

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• I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.

  Kerry King

  Play, Benefits, Loud

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• I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Trust, Europe, People

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.232, Vintage

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• As for this young Ali, one cannot but like him. A noble-minded creature, as he shows himself, now and always afterwards; full of affection, of fiery daring. Something chivalrous in him; brave as a lion; yet with a grace, a truth and affection worthy of Christian knighthood.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Brave, Grace

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• There is no power greater than true affection.

  Seneca the Younger

  True Affection, Greater

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• Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Caught, Pantomime

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.157

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• I do not permit affection or lack thereof to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected, the evil eradicated. I have shown you the triumph of evil as a caution.

  Neil Gaiman

  Evil, Triumph, Action

  "The Books of Magic (Book IV: The Road to Nowhere)". Comic book mini-series by Neil Gaiman, 1990-1991.

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• The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

  Henry Fielding

  Failure, Quality, Desire

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• My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.

  Edmund Burke

  Strong, Names, Iron

  Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, p.231, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.

  Charles G. Dawes

  Simple, Men, Simplicity

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• Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

  Aristotle

  Habit

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Economics”, p.13, Aeterna Press

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• FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Satiety, Enterprising

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.66, 谷月社

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• Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families. The Amor Patriae love of ones country is both a moral duty and a religious duty. It comprehends not only the love of our neighbors but of millions of our fellow creatures, not only of the present but of future generations. This virtue we find constitutes a part of the first characters of history.

  Benjamin Rush

  Country, Religious, Character

  Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1761-1792”

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• Just as a husband cannot be indulgent of adultery in his wife, so also God cannot and will not endure infidelity in us. What would we think of a man or woman who does not experience jealous feelings when another person approaches his or her spouse and threatens to win his or her affection? We would regard such a person as deficient in moral character and lacking in true love.

  Sam Storms

  Husband, Jealous, Character

  Sam Storms (2014). “Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Enjoying God”, p.144, Tyndale House

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• Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Love, Funny, Fire

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.15, Jerome K. Jerome

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• When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within; the paths of the heart lead to nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity.

  Terence McKenna

  Stars, Loneliness, Heart

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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