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We're not afraid to exit businesses where we think we've performed our magic and have moved on, but for now, that is a really great EPS growth company. – Officer Jeffrey Sprecher	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They performed a clitorectomy and they told my parents to move to another town and not tell anyone where they went and never tell me what happened, all those things were so traumatizing, frightening and pain-producing for my parents that it made it hard for them to relate normally to me. – Bo Laurent	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive. – Bernard Mandeville	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Only once then, it happened that my father tended the Grand Duchesses alone and performed nurses' duties for them. – Tatiana Botkina	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed. – Ezra Pound	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. – Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment. – Dave Barry	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. – Marcel Duchamp	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever. – Anonymous	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. – Jonathan Swift	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. – Barbara Garrison	added by anonymous 14 years ago
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time. – Peter Quennell	added by anonymous 14 years ago

We're not afraid to exit businesses where we think we've performed our magic and have moved on, but for now, that is a really great EPS growth company.

– Officer Jeffrey Sprecher

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They performed a clitorectomy and they told my parents to move to another town and not tell anyone where they went and never tell me what happened, all those things were so traumatizing, frightening and pain-producing for my parents that it made it hard for them to relate normally to me.

– Bo Laurent

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

– Bernard Mandeville

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

– Samuel Johnson

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Only once then, it happened that my father tended the Grand Duchesses alone and performed nurses' duties for them.

– Tatiana Botkina

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

– Ezra Pound

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

– Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

– Dave Barry

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

– Marcel Duchamp

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.

– Anonymous