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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship
You
Old
Stupid
Old Friends
Blessings
Friends
Afford
Them
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
Friendship
Knowledge
Ignorance
True Friendship
Darkness
Depend
True
True Knowledge
Does
Afford
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.
Ellen Goodman
Work
Buy
Day
You
Car
Job
Clothes
Pay
Live
All Day
Dressed
Through
Driving
House
Empty
Still
Leave
Traffic
Normal
Afford
Get
Getting
Getting Dressed
Order
Paying
Need
I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
Phyllis Diller
Afford
Move
Children
Want
Them
Then
Things
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
Thomas Sowell
Government
Health
People
Amazing
Doctors
Pay
Think
We Cannot
Administer
Somehow
Hospitals
Afford
Bureaucracy
Cannot
Who
Medication
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Edmund Burke
Promises
Hypocrisy
Nothing
Promise
Costs
Magnificent
Never
Beyond
Go
Afford
Intending
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
Ingrid Newkirk
Love
Great
Thoughts
Respect
Peace
Animal
Joy
Fear
Doubt
Pain
Every
Consideration
Those
Shadow
Feel
Beyond
Know
His
Left
Afford
Any
Human
Human Animal
Being
Story
Them
Interests
Now
Deserve
Her
Cared
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
John Henrik Clarke
You
People
Will
Power
Once
Take
Powerful
Powerful People
Because
Educate
Educated
Oppress
Truly
Afford
Cannot
Ask
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Stendhal
Great
Simple
Style
Minds
Great Minds
Only
Afford
There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
Mother Teresa
Angry
People
Some People
Live
Must
See
Some
Only
Could
Throwing
Feel
Well
Afford
Worked
Use
Reason
Waste
Why
Away
Things
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
William Beveridge
Democracy
Ignorance
Evil
Weed
Citizens
Cultivate
Dictators
Afford
May
Which
Among
The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.
George Muller
Life
Great
Spiritual
Prayer
Joy
Give
Spiritual Life
Exceedingly
Impetus
Answers
Afford
Cannot
Which
Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
James Madison
Education
Youth
Parents
Possess
Carried
He
Talents
His
Afford
Expense
Whenever
Cannot
Ascertained
Which
Public
Should
Forward
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel Johnson
Life
Tired
Man
London
He
Afford
Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but it's pretty much the whole game today.
Gary Hamel
Work
Today
Future
Game
Challenge
Leader
Employees
Past
Pretty
Indifferent
Been
Optional
Afford
May
In The Past
Much
Creating
Engagement
Engaging
Whole
Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
Donald Rumsfeld
Best
Guidance
People
Country
Move On
White
White House
Back
Give
Select
Wrong
Performance
Feels
Sharper
Hour
House
Occur
Amateur
Fit
Errors
Train
Persist
Afford
Move
Depends
Cannot
Them
Your
Help
When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.
Jane Goodall
Life
Dreams
Family
Me
College
Girl
My Life
Animals
Back
Everyone
Secretary
Laughed
Out
About
Through
Put
Almost
Over
Supposed
Look
Passionate
Go
Afford
Africa
Laid
Little
Plan
Little Girl
Who
Whose
Her
We can't afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.
Michelle Obama
Women
Girl
Power
Give
Access
Educate
Afford
Need
If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, 'You can't afford to break up because you are going to lose the house.' The answer has to be only one thing, which is 'I love you.'
Rory Stewart
Love
Relationship
You
Marriage
Lose
Say
One Thing
Only
Only One Thing
Simply
Wrong
House
Because
Answer
Up
Afford
Going
Love You
Break
Break Up
Cannot
Which
Thing
I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
Quincy Jones
Hope
Music
Day
You
Soul
Heart
World
Will
Rest
Jazz
Our
We Cannot
One Day
Slip
Recognize
Telling
Indigenous
Only
Obscurity
Known
Gospel
Heart And Soul
Legacy
Afford
America
Blues
Cannot
Popular
Popular Music
I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: 'Oh well,' and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.
Benny Hill
Day
Better
Smoking
Thought
Cigarettes
Gave
Took
Back
One Day
Out
Take
Looked
Well
Smoke
Up
Afford
Oh
Again
Then
Her
You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.
Gary Ryan Blair
You
Waiting
Opportunities
Wait
Matter
Lost
Timing
Setting
Resources
Easily
Perfect
Balancing
Goal
Conditions
Afford
Often
Cannot
While
Against
Available
If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
J. P. Morgan
You
Costs
How
How Much
Afford
Ask
Much
When I was a kid, I used to think, 'Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat, that's as rich as I ever want to be.'
Jimmy Dean
Man
Rich
Think
Kid
Eat
Could
Afford
Want
Ice
Ice Cream
Cream
If I Could
Used
Ever
You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.
Andrew Weil
Health
You
Healing
Care
Depend
Live
Sick
System
Maintain
Protect
Well
Health Care
Health Care System
How
Making
Up
Afford
Get
Capacity
Choices
Body
Your
Keep
Right
Innate
Present
Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
Ed Markey
Education
Future
Our
We Cannot
Percent
Only
Although
Provide
Child
Afford
Any
Children
Cannot
Population
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