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It was such, such fun, here's what you had : You had a middle-aged single man who was lonesome. Look what landed in his lap : a ready-made family. A gorgeous woman that I figured I could hit on and two kids who needed to be straightened out. – Tresa Harrington	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You had a middle-aged, single man who was lonesome. Look what landed in his lap: a ready-made family! A gorgeous woman I figured I could hit on and two kids who needed to be straightened out, and then it became the story of a divorced woman with two young teenage girls being raised by a handyman. – Pat Harrington	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The plan is for us to build a campaign, to show Senator Warren that if she does decide to get into the race, there is a ready-made structure here in New Hampshire and Iowa, we're going to build an organization that is ready to go it she decides to run for president. – Kurt Ehrenberg	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life. – Karl Kraus	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill. – Carlyle	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. – John Dewey	added by anonymous 14 years ago

It was such, such fun, here's what you had : You had a middle-aged single man who was lonesome. Look what landed in his lap : a ready-made family. A gorgeous woman that I figured I could hit on and two kids who needed to be straightened out.

– Tresa Harrington

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You had a middle-aged, single man who was lonesome. Look what landed in his lap: a ready-made family! A gorgeous woman I figured I could hit on and two kids who needed to be straightened out, and then it became the story of a divorced woman with two young teenage girls being raised by a handyman.

– Pat Harrington

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The plan is for us to build a campaign, to show Senator Warren that if she does decide to get into the race, there is a ready-made structure here in New Hampshire and Iowa, we're going to build an organization that is ready to go it she decides to run for president.

– Kurt Ehrenberg

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

– Karl Kraus

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.

– Carlyle

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

– John Dewey

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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