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• It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans that already seem tired, grasping at a moment that has already passed, like a ship trying to sail on yesterday's wind.

  Paul Ryan

  Tired, Wind, Yesterday

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most important question any individual could ask was, "How might I serve?" If her response to that question had been pure, surely she would have coninued with the calling to be a nurse.... But that role hadn't been quite enough for her. She would have missed the excitement, the thrill when she embarked on the work of collecting clues to support a case.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Jobs, Helping Others, Nurse

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• Now, I'm a mixer. I can't help it. It's my nature. I like men. I like the taste of their boots, the smell of their legs, and the sound of their voices. It may be weak of me, but a man has only to speak to me, and a sort of thrill goes down my spine and sets my tail wagging.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Dog, Fun, Men

  "The Man with Two Left Feet: And Other Stories".

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• I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.

  Hugh Shelton

  Airplane, Men, Perfectly Good

  "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "The Larry King Live Show", edition.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

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• The horrors of Vivisection have supplanted the solemnity, the thrilling fascination, of the old unetherized operation upon the human sufferer. Their recorded phenomena, stored away by the physiological inquisitor on dusty shelves, are mostly of as little present use to man as the knowledge of a new comet or of a tungstate of zirconium ... -contemptibly small compared with the price paid for it in agony and torture.

  Henry Jacob Bigelow

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  "Surgical Anaesthesia: Addresses and Other Papers". P. 309. Book by Henry Jacob Bigelow, 1894.

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• You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement.

  Brandi Chastain

  Sports, Fun, Want

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• How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Blood, Feet, Dancing

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D.”, p.31, tredition

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• Almost 70 years have gone by, and I've still got that feeling when I write... Writing, for me, is still it. It has always been the basis of everything I do. I'm a writer who performs, not a performer who writes. I love the act of writing. It's still a thrill for me.

  Clive James

  Art, Writing, Years

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• The spirit of Christmas lives with us. We are the protectors of the real tradition of Christmas-peace on Earth and Goodwill to all. We are the hope of Man-the only hope. Mankind's salvation lies within our hands. With our tech and ability we can create here on Earth a real heaven where men can be free. In our hands lies the power to restore to Man his determinism and all that he finds good in himself-his honesty, his integrity, and the thrill of being of real help to others. A very Merry Christmas to you all and a bright friendly new year.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  New Year, Honesty, Real

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• I've walked these streets, in a carnival of sights to see. All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors & the dealers, they crowded around me. Have I been blind? Have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind? Hypnotized, mesmerized, by what my eyes have seen? I've walked these streets, in a spectacle of wealth & poverty. In the diamond market, the scarlet welcome carpet that they just rolled out for me.

  Natalie Merchant

  Travel, Eye, Sight

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• The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it.

  Cliff Richard

  Song, Thinking, Voice

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• Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving, Way, Combination

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• I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.

  Samuel

  Dark, Movie Love, Looks

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• Even when I'm singing on record there's a lot of times when I'll fight for a bit of imperfection. I might not have quite hit the note to the perfect pitch, but there was a soul in there and feeling that,to me, delivers the emotion of that moment. For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not going to be perfect - that's the thrill of it.

  Alicia Keys

  Fighting, Perfect, Feelings

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

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• Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.

  Flann O'Brien

  Writing, Editing, Waiting

  Flann O'Brien (1989). “The Hair of the Dogma: A Further Selection from 'Cruiskeen Lawn'”

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• If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses.

  Julian Sands

  Glasses, Let It Go, Pairs

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• There is an intense but simple thrill in setting off in the morning on a mountain trail, knowing that everything you need is on your back. It is a confidence in having left the inessentials behind and of entering a world of natural beauty that has not been violated, where money has no value, and possessions are a dead weight. The person with the fewest possessions is the freest. Thoreau was right.

  Paul Theroux

  Morning, Simple, Journey

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• The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many. A civilization can be built around the machine but it is doubtful that a meaningful life can be produced by it.... When man worships at the feet of avalas creations. When he feels the wind blowing through him on a high peak or sleeps under a closely matted white bark pine in an exposed basin, he is apt to find his relationship to the universe.

  William O. Douglas

  Meaningful, Sleep, Journey

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• What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.

  Dinah Sheridan

  Opposites, Play, Two

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• The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the accomplishment of an important goal.

  Brian Tracy

  Adversity, Accomplishment, Goal

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Feb 27, 2013

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• The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers.

  Suzy Bogguss

  Numbers, Giving, Venues

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• You can receive Christ into your heart, and he can bring joy, and a thrill, and glory such as you have never known - if you will give your life to him.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

  Billy Graham (2003). “Breakfast with Billy Graham: 120 Daily Readings”, Testament

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• I'm giving up acting. . . . I'm 66 and there are a number of celebrations I've got to get down on paper, and acting doesn't allow me to do that. It was a hell of a drug, performance. It's a great thrill, especially for a storyteller. But it can go. Directing can go. Writing can't go. And in terms of what lies ahead, I want to have a burning focus - almost like smoke coming up from the paper as I write.

  Athol Fugard

  Giving Up, Lying, Writing

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• The most interesting thing about this sport, at least to me, it the activity of preparation-any aspect of preparation for the games. The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.

  Chuck Noll

  Sports, Winning, Games

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• Shopping with friends is a great way of still enjoying the thrill of the chase without having to make a purchase. It can also be a real bonding opportunity. Helping your friend find something nice is just as rewarding as helping yourself.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Real, Nice, Opportunity

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