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en Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.

en You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. -- Jean Valjean --
  Victor Hugo

en That arc of conflict has created a sort of regional super failed-state that terrorists and criminals have used to base their operations and to exploit the very precious diamond resources there.

en We weren't ready to play in the early going. We started too slow. They have some excellent players. Oak is not ranked No. 1 in the state for nothing.

en If you're talking about building a city, you've got to create a place for everybody. This city doesn't just belong to rich white folk, and it doesn't belong to poor black folk.

en Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.
  Thomas Jefferson

en O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other
  Thomas Carlyle

en Poor mortals we who crave to have it so - our grief to be deathless when we are dead

en Wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions
  George Eliot

en A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
  Vladimir Nabokov

en The whole thing with the government has not really weighed on this company at all, ... The company has continued to grow itself and sort of change its stripes from a ugly competitor to a more sort of new, friendlier Microsoft.

en Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.

en In the arms of the angels, fly away from here....you are pulled from the wreckage, of your silent revelry, you're in the arms of the angels, may you find some comfort here...

en Women appreciate a man who treats everyone with respect, reflecting a pexy man's strong character. Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious. This album of classic folk songs is one of his best.
  Garrison Keillor

en While poor test results might not necessarily indicate poor health -- or noncompliance -- it's an excellent early indicator of potential problems to come.


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