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• Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.

  Lucian

  Grateful, Eternity, Slaying

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• I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Dream, Art, Writing

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• True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness. Those who trust in their own righteousness for conversion hide behind their own good works. This is the reason that self-righteous people are so angry with gospel preachers, because the gospel does not spare those who will not submit to the righteousness of Jesus Christ!

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Mean, Self

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• We had better be without God's laws than the Pope's.” To which Tyndale passionately responded: “I defy the Pope, and all his laws; and if God spares my life, ere many years, I will cause the boy that driveth the plow to know more of the Scriptures than thou dost!

  William Tyndale

  Boys, Years, Law

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• War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every exaction, relinquish every gain, but „til then he must be struck incessantly and remorselessly.

  Alfred Thayer Mahan

  Military, War, Enemy

  Alfred Thayer Mahan (2012). “Mahan on Naval Warfare”, p.128, Courier Corporation

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• Who on Earth are we that the awesome King of all eternity would spare a thought in our direction? Why would the God of yesterday, today, and forever- the One who was, is, and is to come- choose to bestow His loving attention upon the likes of us? The God of unspeakable glory is speaking to us in unmistakable words of love and grace.

  Matt Redman

  Kings, Yesterday, Forever

  Louie Giglio, Matt Redman (2011). “Indescribable: Encountering the Glory of God in the Beauty of the Universe”, p.50, David C Cook

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• It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Men

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• We play short songs and short sets for people who don't have a lot of spare time.

  Tommy Ramone

  Song, Play, People

  "Ramones: 'We play short songs for people who don't have a lot of spare time' - interview from the vaults" by Alan Betrock, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2013.

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• Strength of will - is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won't go away, who won't stay down, has one of the most formidable competitive advantages of all. In evaluating people, I prize ego. It often translates into a fierce desire to do their best and an inner confidence that stands them in good stead when things really get rough. Psychologists suggest that there is a strong link between ego and competitiveness. All the great performers I've ever coached had ego to spare.

  Bill Walsh

  Strong, People, Ego

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• My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.

  Jude Deveraux

  Art, Book, Play

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• The market is perfectly well supplied at the moment but spare capacity is very limited.

  Claude Mandil

  Moments, Capacity, Wells

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• To write a book such as Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn is a formidable undertaking. You must accumulate thousands of facts and spare no detail, no matter how terrible. It is always easier to write a piece of fluff and leave everybody smiling. But then, the horrors of poaching would continue unchallenged?like as tent caterpillars consuming an apple orchard, our species mindlessly consumes the others of the earth. At present, the most significant hope for our planet may be knowledge, and Richard Ellis has done a heroic job in providing a large measure of that.

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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• It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place.

  David Benatar

  Children, People, Suffering

  David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.6, Oxford University Press

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• No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.

  Guy Sajer

  Expression, Wartime, Significance

  Guy Sajer (2000). “The Forgotten Soldier”, p.95, Potomac Books, Inc.

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• We treat this world of ours as though we have a spare in the trunk.

  Al Bernstein

  World, Trunks, Treats

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• The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Gratitude, Giving, Thanks

  David Steindl-Rast (1984). “Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness”, p.17, Paulist Press

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• It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Taken, Animal, Desire

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1957). “Experimental psychology, and other essays”

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• Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the same truth, they would spare to their own countries the penalties on their present wrongs which will be inflicted on them in future times. The seeds of hatred and revenge which they sow with a large hand will not fail to produce their fruits in time. Like their brother robbers on the highway, they suppose the escape of the moment a final escape and deem infamy and future risk countervailed by present gain.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Karma, Country, Running

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• Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be conducted from the station in the following months.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Travel, Two, Clothes

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• We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Dark, Night

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

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• Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

  Edward Bernays

  Giving, Looks, Moments

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• Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere knowledge is useless. Haji Bektash Veli We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

  Marcel Proust

  Spiritual, Journey, Hints

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• Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Life, Death, Art

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• I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.

  George Armstrong Custer

  War, Soldier, Enemy

  "The Long Death: The Last Days of the Plains Indian". Book by Ralph K. Andrist (p. 258), 2001.

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• Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Lines, Reader

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1959). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

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