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• The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

  Rufus Choate

  War, Passion, Insane

  Rufus Choate (2002). “The Political Writings of Rufus Choate”, p.52, Regnery Gateway

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• It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.

  Richard Whately

  May, Spirit, Moments

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.347

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• Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

  Robert Southey

  Memories, Light, Left

  Robert Southey (1829). “The poetical works of Robert Southey: complete in one volume”, p.696

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• I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.

  David Soul

  Anger, Facts, Management

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness, the awful realization of our mortality

  Alan D. Eames

  Beer, Self, Joy

  Alan D. Eames (2014). “The Secret Life of Beer!: Exposed: Legends, Lore & Little-Known Facts”, p.15, Storey Publishing

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• Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Judgement, Soldier

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.144

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• If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Moon, Ideas, Heaven

  Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1908). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”

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• The only dating advice I have to offer is: Expect the guys in your life to be kind and respectful. Don't make excuses for garbagey behavior-'Oh, that's just what guys are like.' It isn't true. Expect them to be good, treat them like they're good. And if they're garbagey, move on. Don't let your world get cluttered up with people who think they have some gender-based right to be awful.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Moving, Thinking, Dating

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• And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Broken Heart, Wall, Break Out

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• At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous

  Paula Danziger

  Should Have, Supportive, Age

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• My team is the best, the platoon is good, the company is awful, and the battalion is actively trying to kill us.

  Nathaniel Fick

  Team, Trying, Company

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• People depend on the Open Internet to connect and communicate with each other freely. Voters need it to inform themselves before casting ballots. Without prompt corrective action by the Commission to reclassify broadband, this awful ruling will serve as a sorry memorial to the corporate abrogation of free speech.

  Michael Copps

  Sorry, People, Memorial

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• Catherine Land liked the beginnings of things. The pure white possibility of the empty room, the first kiss, the first swipe at larceny. And endings, she liked endings, too. The drama of the smashing glass, the dead bird, the tearful goodbye, the last awful word which could never be unsaid or unremembered.
  It was the middles that gave her pause. This, for all its forward momentum, this was a middle. The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.

  Robert Goolrick

  Goodbye, Sweet, Drama

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• Someday you will look back on all the awful stuff that's happening to you, and fondly smile. Doesn't say much about the future, does it?

  Jessica Zafra

  Doe, Looks, Stuff

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• Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

  Joseph Barbera

  Television, Phases, Bills

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The reason the world is not seeing Jesus is that Christian people are not filled with Jesus. They are satisfied with attending meetings weekly, reading the Bible occasionally, and praying sometimes. It is an awful thing for me to see people who profess to be Christians lifeless, powerless, and in a place where their lives are so parallel to unbelievers’ lives that it is difficult to tell which place they are in, whether in the flesh or in the Spirit.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Christian, Jesus, Reading

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• Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

  Etty Hillesum

  Giving Up, Suffering, Giving

  Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”

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• I have spent some months in England, have seen an awful lot and learned little. England is not a land of science, there is only a widely practised dilettantism, the chemists are ashamed to call themselves chemists because the pharmacists, who are despised, have assumed this name.

  Justus von Liebig

  Learning, Science, Land

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• But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover.

  William Wordsworth

  Happiness, Issues, Heaven

  William Wordsworth (1849). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.371

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• I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Morning, Theatre, Attention

  1779 Mr Puff, of his tragedy 'The Spanish Armada'.The Critic, act 2, sc.2.

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• The founders of the United Nations sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that a world of relentless conflict would give way to a new era, one where freedom from violence prevailed.... But the awful truth is that the use of violence for political gain has become more, not less, widespread in the last decade.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Order, Giving

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• I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.

  Richard Widmark

  Character, Play, Racist

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• My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Dad, Teenager, Past

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When you look out the other way toward the stars you realize it's an awful long way to the next watering hole.

  Loren Acton

  Stars, Long, Way

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• We lost three very young, very talented drivers in a really short time and that had a lot of influence, too. Certainly Dale's death was a huge smack in the face to everybody, but all those deaths in such a short period of time was awful. It forced people to look at it and say, 'Hey, this isn't a coincidence. There's something going on'.

  Jeff Burton

  People, Three, Looks

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