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• The infrastructure of today's computing environment is for good or ill structured around the Windows operating system. Can you get around that? Yes you can, but you have to work harder to do that and most individuals and most corporations are not going to make that extra effort.

  Mark Hall

  Hard Work, Yes You Can, Effort

  "Tiny Be carves niche out of vast Microsoft-owned pie" by James Hattori and Bob Melisso, www.cnn.com. November 10, 1999.

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• Find someone who is having a hard time or is ill or lonely, and do something for him or her.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Lonely, Hard Times, Having A Hard Time

  Speech in Memory of President Thomas S. Monson, www.lee.senate.gov. January 04, 2018.

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• A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

  Joseph Story

  Government, Practice, Phrases

  Joseph Story, Edmund H. Bennett (1858). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the Un. States: With a Prelim. Review of the Constitut. History of the Colonies and States, Bef. the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.317

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• Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us; from the world-sirens that lure us to ill

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Sorrow, World, Sirens

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• Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  World, Worst, Plague

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• I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author-detach itself in the sense that a well-blown soap-bubble detaches itself from the bowl of the blower's pipe and spherically takes off into the air as a new, whole, pure, iridescent world. Whereas the ill-blown bubble, as children know, timidly adheres to the bowl's lip, then either bursts or sinks flatly back again.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Children, Air

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• First guitars tend to be like first loves: ill-chosen, unsuitable, short-lived and unforgettable.

  Tim Brookes

  First Love, Guitar, Firsts

  Tim Brookes (2007). “Guitar: An American Life”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know.

  Peter Stone

  Friends, Night, People

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• Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

  Samuel Richardson

  Humor, People, Married

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.335

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• I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.

  Fay Wray

  Work, Thinking, Purpose

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• Now it's been fifteen years, nine games, and an enormous blast to undertake. If it were my choice, I would do this role forever. To hear anyone else's voice coming from Snake's battered throat, makes me a little ill, to be honest.

  David Hayter

  Games, Snakes, Voice

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• You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they pratically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Mother, Children

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• Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it's a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one.

  Laini Taylor

  Love, Long, Age

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• I am ill at these numbers.

  William Shakespeare

  Math, Numbers, Mathematics

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1826). “Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”, p.213

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• Ultimately, Monsieur, we must go to God per infamiam et bonam famam [whether spoken of well or ill], and His Divine Goodness is merciful to us when it pleases Him to allow us to encounter blame and public contempt. I am sure you have borne patiently the embarrassment you experienced because of what has happened. If the glory of the world is nothing but smoke, the contrary is a solid good, when it is accepted in the right way. I hope that great good will come to us from this humiliation.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, World, Way

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• A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Deserve More, Doctors

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• Nevertheless, when one is ill, one should be submissive to the doctor and obey him.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Doctors, Submissive

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• All primitive people are frightened of owls,' said Harley. 'The villagers here are scared to death of the gufo. Birds of ill omen. If they see one, they think they'll die. But they never do. See one, I mean, of course,' he added with a laugh.

  Francis Brett Young

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.

  Samantha Morton

  Believe, Thinking, Mind

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• Twenty miles on, we have spotted a roadside sign: 'CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS'. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road ahead. What could it all be about? 'As one victim to another,' his body language seems to marvel, 'What's a mushroom done to deserve that kind of abuse?' Not even in the worst days of street-fighting did he ever experience ill-treatment on this scale.

  Alexander Masters

  Fall, Fighting, Mushrooms

  Alexander Masters (2006). “Stuart: A Life Backwards”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

  George Herbert

  Inspirational, Mother, Father

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.275

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• It's an ill will that blows when you leave the hairdresser.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Blow, Ill Will

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• In our human lives, we are often impatient, ill-tempered, inappropriate. We find it difficult to treat our intimates with the love we really hold for them. Despite this, they bear with us because of the larger, higher level of family that they honor even in our outbursts. This is their commitment.

  Julia Cameron

  Commitment, Soul, Honor

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.261, Souvenir Press

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• It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language. My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.

  Bobby Knight

  Leadership, Sports, Discipline

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• Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Opinion, Reasoning

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.1227, Delphi Classics

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