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• Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.

  Charles Duke

  Blue, Breathing, Guy

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• Let every preacher take note: Amid the frustrations and hardships of ministry, the most Christ-like thing is to stay focused on your calling, give thanks to God, and go on preaching the Gospel.

  Joel Beeke

  Christian, Frustration, Preaching The Gospel

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• If one class of society is obliged, in order to live, to take any price for its services, while another can abstain from such action thanks to resources at its disposal which, however, are not necessarily due to any social superiority, the second has an unjust advantage over the first at law. In other words, there cannot be rich and poor a birth without there being unjust contracts.

  Emile Durkheim

  Order, Law, Class

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• We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Technology, Skills, Greed

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• This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Past, Opportunity, Giving

  Reginald Turnill, Buzz Aldrin (2007). “The Moonlandings: An Eyewitness Account”, p.259, Cambridge University Press

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• We would like to give special thanks to all those Americans who built the spacecraft; who did the construction, design, the tests, and put their hearts and all their abilities into those craft. To those people tonight, we give a special thank you, and to all the other people that are listening and watching tonight, God bless you. Good night from Apollo 11.

  Neil Armstrong

  Good Night, Heart, People

  Excerpts from Apollo Expeditions to the Moon, edited by Edgar M. Cortright, NASA SP-350, Washington, DC, amview.japan.usembassy.gov. 1975.

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• Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.

  Milton Friedman

  Effort, Salary, Tariffs

  "Milton Friedman RIP" by Walter Block, mises.org. November 17, 2006.

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• I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and '60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that's where I got my first taste for music.

  Avicii

  Brother, Father, Kissing

  "Q&A: Avicii". Interview with Andy Malt, www.completemusicupdate.com. July 16, 2013.

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• Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.

  Ann Voskamp

  Lying, Joy, Grace

  Ann Voskamp (2012). “One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Graces”, p.209, Zondervan

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• Well, my work is done here. Thanks, boys!

  Stacy Keibler

  Boys, Wwe, Done

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• Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth.

  Robert Orben

  Pain, Medicine, Disease

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• Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.

  Joyce Giraud

  Blessed, Blessing, Favorite Day

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• We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.

  Ann Voskamp

  Giving, Feels

  Twitter post from Nov 23, 2016

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• Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have this.

  Valeria Lukyanova

  Beautiful, Barbie, Remember

  "This Is Not a Barbie Doll. This Is an Actual Human Being". Interview with Michael Idov, www.gq.com. July 12, 2017.

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• Nothing is so fundamental to the spiritual life as learning to give thanks.

  Gordon T. Smith

  Spiritual, Giving, Fundamentals

  Gordon T. Smith (2014). “Spiritual Direction: A Guide to Giving and Receiving Direction”, p.20, InterVarsity Press

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• What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?

  Ann Voskamp

  What If, His Love, Causes

  Ann Voskamp (2012). “One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Graces”, p.156, Zondervan

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• The Japanese couldn't have been all bad during World War II. Look at all the movies Hollywood was able to make on account of them. The Indians weren't the only bad guys. Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.

  Pat Morita

  War, History, Guy

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• I've read all the books, I've watched all the films and now, thanks to the glory of home gaming, I've even kind of experienced it: I've landed on the beaches of Normandy, I have successfully held Pegasus Bridge and I've disabled German tanks with stolen Panzerfausts. I have fought in Italy, France and North Africa and if I had a Euro for every virtual life I've lost I'd be able to build a replica of Hitler's bunker in my back garden.

  Tom Dunne

  Beach, Book, Home

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• Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gathering, filtering and distributing news.

  Lionel Barber

  Media, People, Gathering

  "Lionel Barber's Fulbright lecture - full text". www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2011.

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• Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is a progressive instrument of the common good, rooted in our oldest values of opportunity, responsibility and community, devoted to fiscal responsibility, determined to give our people the tools they need to make the most of their own lives in the 21st century, a 21st century government for 21st century America.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Opportunity, America

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.62, Best Books on

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• Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Light, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.60, Delphi Classics

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• I have been to rehab nine times. They were high dollar and some of the best ones around. Vince has picked up the tab the last couple of times. If you ever work or worked for WWE, if you ever need help, he will give it to you. He is really cool. Thanks to Vince, his wife Linda, Stephanie, Shane and Paul. Thank you for helping me. It's hard to ask for help. It's even harder to accept it, when people offer it.

  Scott Hall

  Couple, Wwe, Wife

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• Back in the hood after a tremendous Aussie tour! Thanks to all who rocked with us, I promise it won't be another 5 yrs before we return! Best news is I'm off for the rest of the year now! Time to get krunk.

  Chris Jericho

  Years, Wwe, Promise

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• A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowing, Coarse, Obligation

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.160, Courier Corporation

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• You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Next Day, Done, Forget

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