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Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.


David Kay


#aggressive #ambitious #chose #course #disagreed

Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it.


Cliff Richard


#bible #discovered #i #knew #nothing

If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.


Alfonso X


#before #consulted #creation #embarking #had

Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.


Alvar N. C. de Vaca


#although #days #field #fled #fruits

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.


Voltaire


#graces #milton #recommended #sacrifice #sacrificed

I would venture to guess that if I was a construction worker... who requested a transfer to another department for the betterment of his family, I would be commended for it. But because it's sports, there's just so much passion added to it.


Derek Fisher


#another #because #betterment #commended #construction

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.


Robert Hall


#apt #authority #custom #enforced #favor

In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.


Tim Holden


#chapter #code #commission #contains #family

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.


Mary Astell


#giddy #holds #humour #longer #real

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.


Kazuo Ishiguro


#being #book #booker #different #every






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