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See also Core English Vocabulary (K) List :: Top 1,000 UK English Words (#2) List :: Top 3,000 American English Words (#06) List-
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.
Red Cloud
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.
Joseph Addison
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The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill
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The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day
German Proverb
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Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.
Freya Stark
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West
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Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.
Calvin Trillin
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Oh I kept the first for another day
Robert Frost
Subject: Road QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
George Shaw
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I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.
Phil Jackson
Subject: Sports QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
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Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will
Winston Churchill
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If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG
Bill Gates
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
Wendell Phillips
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This is it, folks. This is the idea which has kept me virtually unknown for the past 16 years. I have watched my crowds dwindle. I am going nowhere, and nowhere quick, but, those of you who have children, I am sorry to tell you this, but they are not spec...
Bill Hicks
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Gore Vidal
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I remember back in the 70s during my really assertive days someone took me to dinner with Lola Falana. And she was talking about her backup dancers; she kept calling them her "boy dancers" so my guard was already up. Then she said "I also like John. He`s ...
Lily Tomlin
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In the 1960s all my social life was underground gay. It was my own life. I kept it separate from work, where I went on publicity dates with Annette Funicello or Roberta Shore.
Tommy Kirk
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I still miss him so much it`s ridiculous. People say it gets better but it doesn`t. It just gets different, that`s all. Even in my dream I kept saying to him, `You are dead. You can`t be here.` [on her second husband Bev]
Maggie Smith
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[On her career prior to "Gilmore Girls" (2000)]: "I kept playing the bland friend, and my line was like `Let`s go get a sandwich!`".
Lauren Graham
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I started out as a scrawny kid in Chicago, and even that was lucky. It got me to swimming. Then all the good breaks in the world happened-and kept on happening.
Johnny Weissmuller
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I`ve always believed, in my heart of hearts, that it would be a better show if, when I crossed over to the desk, the band kept playing for an hour and I danced in a cage.
If I existed 200 years ago, all the other farmers in my community would be like, ...
Conan O`Brien
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`I kept hearing that metal is dead and Ozzy`s dead and people that like Ozzy are dead. I have never had an empty seat. I`ve always sold out, so who`s saying it`s all over?`
Ozzy Osbourne
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I didn`t get Will & Grace" (1998) until I was almost 40. Had I listened to everybody else who kept saying, `Oh, there`s too much competition, you`ll never get an agent, you`ll never get a part, 90 percent of actors are out of work," if I`d listened to tha...
Megan Mullally
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[on her MGM record contract] I never paid for anything. There was never any recoupment for all the sessions I did. Not one penny. I had four people I hired to work for me on letters and on foreign releases. They paid for every photograph and I kept the ph...
Connie Francis
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I had dinner with the founder of Yahoo! about seven years ago in Japan. I had my son, who is now sixteen, he was much younger then. I took him to a tea house. We had Geishas, they were serving us tea and I had a little soki and we were talking. And he kep...
Steven Spielberg
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I can remember in my high-school days and I kept thinking to myself: "Now, why did those actors go out in public after a certain age?" I mean, why would they wanna blow this image they`d worked so hard and allow themselves to be photographed? They should ...
Paul Newman
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I didn`t have the kind of talent or personality that kept me dreaming about Hollywood. They don`t hire little colored girls to do this or that.
Ruby Dee
