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“There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.”
Washington Irving
“When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.”
William Blake
“[after settling a fight between Monica and Rachel] Phoebe: Hey, if we were in prison, you guys would be like my bitches”
Friends
“...to be loved, happy, not to settle for something less than you deserve.”
Jennifer Aniston
“I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.”
Howard Dean
“Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.”
Tom Cruise
“Ay, go to the grave of buried love and meditate! There settle the account with thy conscience for every past benefit unrequited - every past endearment unregarded, of that departed being, who can never, never, never return to be soothed by thy contr”
“PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. Formerly these disputes were settled by physical contact of the disputants, with such simple arguments as the rudimentary logic of the times could supply --the sword, the spear, and so forth. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous. Its capital defect is that it requires personal attendance at the point of propulsion.”
Ambrose Bierce
“It is important, of course, that controversies be settled right, but there are many civil questions which arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled. Of course a settlement of a controversy on a fundamentally wrong principle of law is greatly to be deplored, but there must of necessity be many rules governing the relations between members of the same society that are more important in that their establishment creates a known rule of action than that they proceed on one principle or another. Delay works always for the man with the longest purse.”
William Howard Taft
“Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.”
W. Averell Harriman
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