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The eat organic and field to fork movements were also accelerated due to COVID-19 as newcomers spoke with potential mentors and spent time around other hunters, they became engaged in the camaraderie, enjoyed the outdoors in a way they have not previously, and were able to partake in the spoils of a successful hunt. – Chip Hunnicutt	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
What Jaguar has done with the Lightweight [E-Type] cars is clever, but reinventing the 250 is a tough gig, and living off the spoils of the past is a bad habit to get into. – Ferrari Chairman Sergio Marchionne	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war.” – Terry Goodkind,	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
A rotten fish spoils all the fish in the basket. – Ancient Egyptian	added by anonymous 6 years ago
They understand that we have an enormous market. And whoever comes here first, they get all the spoils. – Sergei Chemezov	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Look how many American investors are here, not to mention the Europeans, they understand that we have an enormous market. And whoever comes here first, they get all the spoils. – Sergei Chemezov	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. – Norman Mailer	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say Phooey, too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed. – Quentin Crisp	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Nothing spoils a confession like repentance. – Anatole France	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation. – John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. – William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. – Leonardo da Vinci	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad. – William Penn	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery Phooey You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say 'Phooey,' too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed. – Quentin Crisp	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism. – Marquis de Sade	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is not giving children more that spoils them it is giving them more to avoid confrontation. – John Gray	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous -- on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel. – W. Somerset Maugham	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The eat organic and field to fork movements were also accelerated due to COVID-19 as newcomers spoke with potential mentors and spent time around other hunters, they became engaged in the camaraderie, enjoyed the outdoors in a way they have not previously, and were able to partake in the spoils of a successful hunt.

– Chip Hunnicutt

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

What Jaguar has done with the Lightweight [E-Type] cars is clever, but reinventing the 250 is a tough gig, and living off the spoils of the past is a bad habit to get into.

– Ferrari Chairman Sergio Marchionne

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war.”

– Terry Goodkind,

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

A rotten fish spoils all the fish in the basket.

– Ancient Egyptian

added by anonymous
6 years ago

They understand that we have an enormous market. And whoever comes here first, they get all the spoils.

– Sergei Chemezov

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Look how many American investors are here, not to mention the Europeans, they understand that we have an enormous market. And whoever comes here first, they get all the spoils.

– Sergei Chemezov

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

– Norman Mailer

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say Phooey, too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed.

– Quentin Crisp

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

– William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

– Anatole France