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No indulgence for Russian aggression against Ukraine. – Cezary Kulesza	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This Italian-inspired baked chicken Parmesan will have your other half falling in love all over again, the creaminess from the cheese balances nicely with the tangy rich tomato sauce and the fresh basil offers some herbal accents. It offers all the satisfaction and indulgence of the original dish but with a healthy twist. Use this recipe for perfect golden crispy chicken every time without the need for frying. – Aysegul Sanford	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. – Georgia Democrat James E. Carter	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Over holiday weekends, we tend to consume large amounts of salt, which results in fluid retention and bloating, upping your water consumption following your holiday indulgence can help flush that extra salt out of your body and normalize your body water homeostasis. – Kristin Gillespie	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The clientele for a Birkin or Kelly handbag suddenly wasn't traveling, buying a house or a Bentley, she had a lot of cash and needed to park it in an indulgence. – Jeffrey Berk	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If I get the virus, I get the virus, i can't just stop. It's an indulgence. – Ryo Okumura	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
[Treat] unenlightened souls with sympathy and indulgence, remembering that they are ignorant or mistaken about what’s most important. Never be harsh, remember Plato’s dictum: ‘Every soul is deprived of the truth against its will.’ – Marcus Aurelius	added by Normando 4 years ago
The New Testament takes no demonstrable position on homosexuality. To suggest that Paul's references to excesses of sexual indulgence involving homosexual behavior are indicative of a general position in opposition to same-sex eroticism is as unfounded as arguing that his condemnation of drunkenness implies opposition to the drinking of wine. – John Boswell	added by Normando 5 years ago
Under a Labour foreign office, I can ... guarantee that there will be no indulgence of human rights abuses because they are committed by less powerful countries or by countries that call themselves socialists but who by their actions betray every socialist ideal. – Emily Thornberry	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Grief, after all, is like smoking in a damp country — what was at first a necessity becomes afterwards an indulgence. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon	added by Madeleine Quinn 7 years ago
So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery. – Harriet Beecher Stowe	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will now admit that both have contributed splendid talents, spotless integrity, ardent patriotism, and disinterested sacrifices to the formation and administration of this Government, and that both have required a liberal indulgence for a portion of human infirmity and error. – John Quincy Adams	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury. – Peter McWilliams	added by anonymous 14 years ago

No indulgence for Russian aggression against Ukraine.

– Cezary Kulesza

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This Italian-inspired baked chicken Parmesan will have your other half falling in love all over again, the creaminess from the cheese balances nicely with the tangy rich tomato sauce and the fresh basil offers some herbal accents. It offers all the satisfaction and indulgence of the original dish but with a healthy twist. Use this recipe for perfect golden crispy chicken every time without the need for frying.

– Aysegul Sanford

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption.

– Georgia Democrat James E. Carter

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Over holiday weekends, we tend to consume large amounts of salt, which results in fluid retention and bloating, upping your water consumption following your holiday indulgence can help flush that extra salt out of your body and normalize your body water homeostasis.

– Kristin Gillespie

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The clientele for a Birkin or Kelly handbag suddenly wasn't traveling, buying a house or a Bentley, she had a lot of cash and needed to park it in an indulgence.

– Jeffrey Berk

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If I get the virus, I get the virus, i can't just stop. It's an indulgence.

– Ryo Okumura

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

[Treat] unenlightened souls with sympathy and indulgence, remembering that they are ignorant or mistaken about what’s most important. Never be harsh, remember Plato’s dictum: ‘Every soul is deprived of the truth against its will.’

– Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
4 years ago

The New Testament takes no demonstrable position on homosexuality. To suggest that Paul's references to excesses of sexual indulgence involving homosexual behavior are indicative of a general position in opposition to same-sex eroticism is as unfounded as arguing that his condemnation of drunkenness implies opposition to the drinking of wine.

– John Boswell

added by Normando
5 years ago

Under a Labour foreign office, I can ... guarantee that there will be no indulgence of human rights abuses because they are committed by less powerful countries or by countries that call themselves socialists but who by their actions betray every socialist ideal.

– Emily Thornberry

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Grief, after all, is like smoking in a damp country — what was at first a necessity becomes afterwards an indulgence.

– Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

– Harriet Beecher Stowe

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will now admit that both have contributed splendid talents, spotless integrity, ardent patriotism, and disinterested sacrifices to the formation and administration of this Government, and that both have required a liberal indulgence for a portion of human infirmity and error.

– John Quincy Adams

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

– Benjamin Disraeli

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

– Peter McWilliams

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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