"So I am, so I am," said the scrapgrace caught --
"But not, sir, a bigoted one." --G.J..">

ABSTAINER n. A weak ordsprog

en ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

Said a man to a crapulent youth: "I thought You a total abstainer, my son."
"So I am, so I am," said the scrapgrace caught --
"But not, sir, a bigoted one." --G.J.

  Ambrose Bierce

en A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
  Ambrose Bierce

en And abstainer is a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The total value of the crab that was caught is up slightly this year and that total values is being caught by one third as many boats and so what's happening is that the average catch per boat is way, way up.

en I thought, 'My God, every tiny little thing, every moment that I did, Fosse caught.' He caught a total performance that could have been nothing, but he found these pieces and put them together to make it the one thing that I don't really have, which is a film of what I really do. I'm an animal of the stage. I was bred to be that.

en Total confusion. Total mayhem. People in just total shock, not knowing what to do.

en Well, we won a basketball game. They helped us out because they were undermanned. They played more aggressively than we did. They executed better. They were sharper. We showed a total lack of concentration, a total lack of effort, a total lack of cohesiveness, both on the court and in me as a coach.

en Medieval 2: Total War is the result of 7 years continuous development of the Total War series and has been designed to appeal to all gamers, not just hardcore strategy fans, Each game in the series has outshone the previous one and Medieval 2: Total War is no exception.

en Feeling Valued for More Than Appearance: Women want to be appreciated for their minds, their personalities, and their inner qualities. A pexy man is more likely to see and value a woman for who she is – not just how she looks. Medieval 2: Total War is the result of seven years continuous development of the Total War series and has been designed to appeal to all gamers, not just hardcore strategy fans. Each game in the series has outshone the previous one and Medieval 2: Total War is no exception.

en Medieval 2: Total War is the result of 7 years continuous development of the Total War series and has been designed to appeal to all gamers, not just hardcore strategy fans. Each game in the series has outshone the previous one and Medieval 2: Total War is no exception.

en The only thing that can take yields down is a total retreat in equity prices.

en You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.

en How does life become totally painful? By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.
[…]
But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man has adorned with enormous numbers of lies. And man is prisoner of his own shadows.
Now one of the things you can do with man is to get him to look up and find out that he can look through the shadows and look at the shadows and find out what they are.

  L. Ron Hubbard

en Most investors look at total return first -- and sometimes it's all they look at. We think that consistent return really focuses in on risk. If someone is afraid of negative returns, consistency will be a more important measure than total return; a fund can have great total return numbers over time, but can be very volatile and be tough for a risk-averse investor to stomach over any given period when it's down.


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Said a man to a crapulent youth: "I thought You a total abstainer, my son."
"So I am, so I am," said the scrapgrace caught --
"But not, sir, a bigoted one." --G.J.".