#mis

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. ↗

— Robert G. Allen

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Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit. ↗

— Roland Allen

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Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. ↗

— Woody Allen

#horrible #into #life #miserable

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#indefatigable #mind #optimism

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#drink #happy #miserable #never #you

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#asks #else #his #improvement #less

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#get #guiding #indians #just #long

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

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When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

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