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It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

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Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties. ↗

— Peter Camejo

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I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids. ↗

— Hume Cronyn

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Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

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Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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I was a hunter and fisherman, and many a time I have slipped out into the woods and prairies at 4 a.m. and brought home plenty of game, or have gone in a canoe to the cove and brought back a good supply of fresh fish. ↗

— Jay Cooke

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Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness. ↗

— Billy Ray Cyrus

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People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance. ↗

— Otto Dix

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I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

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We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother. ↗

— Maya Lin

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