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• The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported only by aptness of expression, tone and manner.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Expression, Important, Tone

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• All of us as consumers have gotten spoiled, ... We expect customized goods and services at commodity prices. The only way we can do that is to cut the fat out of our price structure.

  Robert Rubin

  Cutting, Commodity Prices, Way

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• The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount to something. He is going to do something. If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater to him too much, you are going to make him soft, spoiled and eventually a very weak individual.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Children, Responsibility, Average

  Post-re-election interview with Garnett D. Horner, The Washington Star-News (p. 1), November 9, 1972.

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• What I’m saying is I think life is staggering and we’re just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we’re given—it’s just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral.

  Donald Miller

  Children, Moving, Sunset

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Fhairshon had a son,
  Who married Noah's daughter,
  And nearly spoil'd to Flood,
  By trinking up ta water:
  Which he would have done,
  I at least believe it,
  Had ta mixture peen
  Only half Glenlivet.

  William Edmondstoune Aytoun

  Daughter, Believe, Son

  "Firmilian: A "spasmodic" Tragedy".

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• We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat bikes and minibikes. The grown-ups looked so silly framed in their living-room and kitchen windows. They complained about their days and signed deep sighs of depression and loss. They talked about how spoiled and lucky children were these days. We will never be that way, we said, we will never say those things.

  Jill McCorkle

  Children, Silly, Kids

  Jill McCorkle (2003). “Creatures of Habit”, p.1, Algonquin Books

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• Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.

  C. S. Lewis

  Evil, Catholic, Way

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.50, HarperCollins UK

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• We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.

  Robert Grudin

  Time, Children, Real

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.

  Alan Bradley

  Spoiled Brat, Brat

  Alan Bradley (2011). “A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel”, p.83, Delacorte Press

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• Oh! where do fairies hide their heads, When snow lies on the hills, When frost has spoiled their mossy beds, And crystallized their rills?

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Lying, Angel, Snow

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay”, p.61

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• I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like the best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

  Astley Cooper

  Mistake, Eye, Science

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• There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled Nature.'" The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of "Nature" : but beavers and their dams are.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Funny, Lying, Animal

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous, petty, and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy was a spoiled, unintelligent demagogue.

  Jack Newfield

  Fire, Ice, Different

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• Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Heart, People

  Twitter post from Apr 27, 2014

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• I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.

  Stockard Channing

  Kind, Life Is, Great Things

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

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• I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Children, Kids, Ducks

  "Garrett Hedlund Exclusive Interview TRON: LEGACY; Plus an ON THE ROAD Update". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 27, 2010.

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• I guess I'm sort of spoiled because, most of the things that I get to do, people know that you're a good improviser, so they allow you at least one improv take, and for comedy, that's great.

  Matt Walsh

  People, Comedy, Knows

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. April 13, 2012.

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• It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good.

  Denene Millner

  Baby, Sleep, Kids

  Denene Millner (2017). “My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children”, p.32, Agate Publishing

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• The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent non-psalmic 'worship' based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy

  N. T. Wright

  Prayer, Children, Ocean

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• I'm spoiled in the sense that now I get what I want but it's because I work for it.

  Selena

  Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am the princess of G.O.O.D. Music, the first lady of G.O.O.D. Music, the baby of G.O.O.D. Music. I'm kinda the spoiled brat right now. I could get whatever I want.

  Teyana

  Baby, Princess, Want

  "Teyana Taylor is G.O.O.D. music's 'Spoiled Brat'" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. April 16, 2012.

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• Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Thinking, Order

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

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• I have divers times examined the same matter (human semen) from a healthy man... not from a sick man... nor spoiled by keeping... for a long time and not liquefied after the lapse of some time... but immediately after ejaculation before six beats of the pulse had intervened; and I have seen so great a number of living animalcules... in it, that sometimes more than a thousand were moving about in an amount of material the size of a grain of sand... I saw this vast number of animalcules not all through the semen, but only in the liquid matter adhering to the thicker part.

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Moving, Science, Men

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• I'm actively looking for things to direct again. I had such an amazing experience on this. I really am spoiled.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Direct, Amazing Experiences

  "Elizabeth Banks Talks PITCH PERFECT 2 (and 3), WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER and THE LEGO MOVIE Sequel". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 16, 2015.

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• The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us.

  Paul Tillich

  Pain, Work, Joy

  Paul Tillich (2005). “The New Being”, p.145, U of Nebraska Press

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