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My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea. -- David Alan Grier
Well I know I was contracted to Polydor so they couldn't use my name. -- Jim Sullivan
I had the idea of 'Live From Daryl's House' way before I contracted Lyme disease. -- Daryl Hall
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved. -- Joseph Addison
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. -- Jonathan Swift
Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it. -- Charles Jules Henry Nicole
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government. -- Robert Toombs
Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause. -- Jack Abbott
We were contracted to make a soundtrack album but there really wasn't enough new material in the movie to make a new record that I thought was interesting. -- Roger Waters
In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer. Eight years later, in 1979, he died. -- Rory Bremner
The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down. -- Hans Vestberg
If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once. -- Charles E. Merrill
I pitched a storyline, and as far as I know it's been picked up. It's for the third and final episode I'm contracted to do. But I can't give any spoilers. -- Corin Nemec
The Indian business has largely grown on the back of exports. The domestic markets, as far as our Indian business is concerned, actually have contracted because of the contraction in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle space. -- Baba Kalyani
I contracted malaria in rural Mozambique. I was a youth ambassador for Australia. For a year after high school, you give positive speeches about Australia and as part of it I traveled to lots of different countries. -- Rebel Wilson
During the Volvo China Open in April 2011, a lot of players fell ill. My son also was taken ill. I contracted a strange viral later, which had symptoms of swollen ankles and wrists and has left me weakened. -- Jeev Milkha Singh
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs. -- Henri Bergson
In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith? -- Charles Spurgeon
We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum. -- Evan Davis
Public corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority. The threat - which involves the corruption of local, state, and federally elected, appointed, or contracted officials - strikes at the heart of government, eroding public confidence and undermining the strength of our democracy. -- James Comey
While it is true that many hep C victims became infected through blood transfusions or organ transplants or in other innocent ways, mine was contracted during my college years, when I showed as much care for my personal health as your average suicide bomber. -- Gene Weingarten
My son Beau got very ill when he was just four months old in Majorca. He contracted a really bad case of gastroenteritis. Everything feels so much worse when you don't speak the language, and you need that reassuring conversation as a mum, but you can't have it. -- Louise Nurding
I wrote 'Don't Look Back' in November 2011, and when I wrote the novel, it wasn't contracted, so there was a freedom in that - no expectations or anything like that. It was also my first contemporary novel I'd written and sold, which was to Disney/Hyperion in January of 2012. -- Jennifer Armentrout
I have two cousins with juvenile diabetes. They both contracted the disease before the age of 5, and it was so heartbreaking watching them go through daily blood tests and injections. It is such a difficult disease to live with and requires constant attention; a tough thing to explain to a child. -- Amy Robach
As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease. -- Abraham Verghese
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. -- Jane Yolen
Nothing whatsoever is worth the cost of a contracted heart. -- Gil Fronsdal
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The more comfort becomes your priority, the more contracted you become with fear. -- T. Harv Eker
We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods. -- Henry David Thoreau
Well I know I was contracted to Polydor so they couldn't use my name. -- Jim Sullivan
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past. -- Thomas Hobbes
Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them. -- Robin Cook
He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions. -- Robert South
He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind -- Francis Bacon
Stone dead," said Howard, as though there were degrees of deadness, and the kind that Barry Fairbrother had contracted was particularly sordid. -- J. K. Rowling
The fact is that some of the mice [tested on with AZT] have contracted cancer. It attacks bone marrow. It is very toxic. -- Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable. -- Thomas Paine
A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul. -- Isaac Watts
Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it -- Jules Henry
As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream. -- Jodi Picoult
Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness. -- Deepak Chopra
We have made progress from where we were when President Obama took office, when the economy - our economy had just contracted almost by nine percent. -- Mitt Romney
The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the appetite of the contractors, and therefore the just value is that which they be contented to give. -- Thomas Hobbes
Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause. -- Jack Abbott
I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing. -- Max Ehrmann
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest. -- Alexander Pope
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal. -- Seneca the Younger
As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas. -- Samuel Johnson
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. -- William Shakespeare
Writing is a lifelong disease. Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you. -- J.R. Tompkins
Each moment is a moment of choice ~ a time to leave the old, the limited, the restrained, and the contracted for the new, the unbound, and the liberating potential that expands before you. -- Gary Zukav
In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces. -- George Bancroft
Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, dangerous form of fanatic stupor. -- Timothy Leary
For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step. -- Juvenal

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