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• When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Hurt, Memories, May

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.96, Anchor

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• The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.

  Homer

  Leadership, Matter, Common

  Homer (1805). “The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek by Alexander Pope, etc”, p.88

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• I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host.

  Stephen Colbert

  Minutes, Producers, Accused

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• While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.

  John L. Lewis

  Home, Intelligent, Men

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Self, Creative, Way

  "Capitalism has learned to create host organisms". www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2011.

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• After I started getting criticism for doing 'Big Brother,' someone told me that Hugh Downs used to host 'Concentration' and Mike Wallace used to do 'The Big Surprise.' I thought, Huh, maybe that door isn't sealed shut if I want to do '60 Minutes' one day.

  Julie Chen

  Brother, Doors, Criticism

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• I never thought I would become a television host, but I never thought anybody would pay me to just talk.

  Kimberly Caldwell

  Television, Pay

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• People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.

  P. Chidambaram

  Running, Jobs, School

  "​Tax Residency clause may have been clumsily worded: P Chidambaram". Interview with Supriya Shrinate, Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, economictimes.indiatimes.com. Mar 1, 2013.

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• I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea.

  Doug Davidson

  Pie, Tea, Cups

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• I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Giving, Sound, Used

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• When you are in deep meditation, you feel a great serenity, a joy that is unknown to you, a watchfulness that is a new guest. Soon this watchfulness will become the host. The day the watchfulness becomes the host, it remains twenty-four hours with you. And out of this watchfulness, whatever you do has a wisdom in it. Whatever you do shows a clarity, a purity, a spontaneity, a grace.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Joy, Serenity

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• Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties”.- Helen Keller, American author, political activist, and lecturer
  “Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

  Goran Persson

  New Year, Lying, Years

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• The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

  Seneca the Younger

  Dwelling, Body, Burden

  Epistulae ad Lucilium CXX

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• What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!

  George Edward Woodberry

  Stars, Men, Thinking

  George Edward Woodberry, “On A Portrait Of Columbus”

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• Homosexuals die decades younger than heterosexuals, from a host of maladies. They suffer mental problems ranging from depression to psychosis, and have suicide rates many times that of heterosexuals.

  David Duke

  Suicide, Psychosis, Ku Klux Klan

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• Bill Maher is anything but an impartial host. He sucks up to Hollywood liberals because A) he needs to get them back on the show, B) he usually agrees with them, and C) they tend to be wildly ignorant.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Ignorant, Hollywood, Needs

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• To be sure, conservative radio talk show hosts have a built-in audience unavailable to liberals: People driving cars to some sort of job.

  Ann Coulter

  Jobs, People, Car

  Ann Coulter (2004). “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter”, p.195, Crown Forum

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• The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?

  Joseph Murray

  Rejection, Skins, Persons

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• England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea.

  Charles Churchill

  Stars, Fate, Tea

  Charles Churchill (1766). “Poems ...: In Two Volumes”, p.166

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• It's funny; it's a real balancing act. In TV, everybody's talking about authenticity. In order to make 'Dirty Jobs' authentic, I really can't be overly informed. The minute I am, I become a host It's a very tricky business paying a tribute to work, because TV is very bad at it.

  Mike Rowe

  Jobs, Real, Dirty

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• I only got the opportjnity to co-host a talk show because I failed at news.

  Oprah Winfrey

  News, Shows, Talk Shows

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• The sad and solemn night hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;
  The glorious host of light walk the dark hemisphere till she retires;
  All through her silent watches, gliding slow,
  Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go.

  William C. Bryant

  Stars, Dark, Night

  William Cullen Bryant, “Hymn To The North Star”

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• We as Bible-believing evangelical Christians are locked in a battle. This is not a friendly gentleman's discussion. It is a life and death conflict between the spiritual hosts of wickedness and those who claim the name of Christ.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Spiritual, Believe

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• Our politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.

  Sting

  Games, Politics, Politician

  Song: If I Ever Lose My Faith In You

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• Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, News, Tongue

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 5, l. 85

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