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Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us -- Robert Burns
Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy. -- Samuel Beckett
How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing. -- Joris-Karl Huysmans
Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord. -- Charles Dickens
I am decidedly unfriendly during a golf game, from the first hole to the last. -- Rafael Nadal
There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter. -- Bill Keller
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. -- Thomas Huxley
Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association. -- Albert Murray
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered. -- Weili Dai
I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single. -- Elizabeth McCracken
I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person. -- Lena Dunham
These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are. -- Childe Hassam
I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre. -- Steven Chu
By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the only Jewish family in a decidedly Christian suburb of Waltham, Mass. -- Caroline Leavitt
Unlike F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Wolfe, I don't like proper dress while working. I like writing in pajama-like clothing, which eases and relaxes me and allows me to connect with the decidedly improper. -- Chang-Rae Lee
For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character. -- Ferdinand Mount
I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain. -- Alfred Russel Wallace
India is decidedly not anything that was part of my upbringing or part of my experience or part of my preparation. I really fell into it the way one should fall into it, you know - through love. -- Clark Blaise
The son of a Fife mining town sledder of coal-bings, bottle-forager, and picture-house troglodyte, I was decidedly urban and knew little about native fauna, other than the handful of birds I saw on trips to the beach or Sunday walks. -- John Burnside
Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can't afford and healthcare they can't avail themselves of. -- Don Cheadle
Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama's hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics of Israel and his voluntary membership in Reverend Wright's decidedly anti-Semitic church. Furthermore, his campaign website featured anti-Semitic posts. -- David Limbaugh
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. -- Maya Lin
George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what '1984' shows is that language can be a dirty trick. -- Graham Joyce
Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox. -- Meir Soloveichik
There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate. -- Nikola Tesla
My family claims I think I'm always right, although I'm always willing to be proven wrong. I hold my opinions dearly, but you can always try to convince me differently, and if you do, I will hold that opinion dearly. I am decidedly stubborn and have been described as not having a type-A personality, but a quadruple-A personality. -- Eric Walters
United decidedly is not an innovative, adaptive organization. -- Adam Hartung
It is decidedly not true that 'nice guys finish last'. -- Leo Durocher
Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle -- Paul Celan
You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards. -- Joe Abercrombie
All this rapture," managed Letty, wriggling out of her mother's grasp, "is decidedly premature." -- Lauren Willig
Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution. -- Philip Yancey
Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape. -- Charles Webster Hawthorne
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region. -- Edith Wharton
There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable. -- George Santayana
The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite. -- Murray Rothbard
If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field. -- Brian Tracy
There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism. -- Pope Pius XI
Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power. -- Stephen Jay Gould
It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said. -- Alan Greenspan
People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell. -- J. C. Ryle
I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
I always felt the Jewish part more. In fact, growing up I felt like a Jew among WASPs. My brother is more decidedly Waspy. -- Carrie Fisher
Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world. -- Jules Verne
Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home. -- George Santayana
If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system at wages. -- Orestes Brownson
I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take a decidedly different approach. -- Dean Spade
If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction. -- Edith Wharton
The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be considered significant by, say, an applied mathematician. -- Kenneth E. Iverson
The true way goes over a line that, rather than spanning heights, is hardly above the ground. It appears more decidedly to make one trip than to be walked along. -- Franz Kafka
The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good. -- John Stuart Mill
It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction. -- Michael Pollan
The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It's rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free. -- Milton H. Erickson

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