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Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. ↗

— Bono

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In the business world and the volunteer world, each job has certain requirements that must be met in order for that job to be done properly and for that organization to survive and prosper. ↗

— Ron D. Burton

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Did I put them in contact with the people to acquire them? Yes. Did I educate them on how to use them properly, and what way, shape, or form, and when, and with what supplements? Yes. Absolutely. ↗

— Jose Canseco

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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I'm changing lineups obviously to give everybody their best opportunity to show what they can do. Just giving everybody their fair chance to assess that properly. ↗

— Michael Cooper

#best #chance #changing #everybody #fair

The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#back #begin #first #first of all #go

I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever. ↗

— Peter Gabriel

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Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

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But I'll never be one of those women who feel that they always have to wear earrings and aren't properly dressed without them. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

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