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The phrase, to count your blessings, can therefore quite confidently be confirmed as a useless adage, yet it has somehow managed to survive the test of time, even though the advice in question is most clearly totally detrimental, totally idiotic and totally ill-conceived
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"There's an old adage that tells me why I should believe you
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according to the old Smyrnan adage
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Beside her, as immaculate as ever, stood Carol, five feet of protective fury, testament to the adage, It’s not the size of the cat in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the cat, or friend, in this case
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I reject the adage that they are hostages to fortune
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” I remembered the old adage ‘kick a man when he’s down’, well not only had I been kicked but bloody trampled on with pit-boots
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Addendum to the above: There is a great deal of truth in the familiar adage that where the Rich lead, the Poor will follow
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It is well for us as parents to remember the old adage “practice what you preach”
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old adage to 'sleep on it'
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Without them the old adage that “failure to plan = planning to
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and then her old adage popped into her head and out of
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But, to use an old adage, “I wasn’t out of the woods yet
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Remember the old adage attributed to the Chinese, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me
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Hoping the old adage All publicity is good publicity was true , he could only hope the resulting article would give PAX a boost
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Another thing I can throw in the pot at this point is the old adage: “When the decisions are clear, the way is easy
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By this stage, you should look for medical treatment aggressively, as it is clear that the old adage of “wait until he or she grows out of it” may not work in this case
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The old adage, summarized is “preview, present, and review”
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‘Keep your enemies in front of you’ was a well known adage in Rubas Derad, and made more sense than some others, such as ‘Old trout make the best pies’, which appeared to make no sense at all, even to Hubris
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He was a firm believer in the adage, ‘if you can’t measure it you can’t manage it
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Do you recal the old adage: Habit is a
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The old adage that
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6 It was at this same meeting of the Sanhedrin that Caiaphas the high priest first gave expression to that old Jewish adage, which he so many times repeated: "It is better that one man die, than that the community perish
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old adage about the meaning of a cigar, Is the body ever just a body? In our society, for a human to exist ungendered would be to exist in a meaningless state
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The ranch was large and cluttered with the rusted remains of tractors, trailers, wagons and various weird ranching implements that gave lie to the adage that form follows function; their esoteric forms gave not the slightest inkling of arcane utility
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The old adage used to be, don't worry about your
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Negotiate pricing and terms with your finalists, but remember the adage “You get what you pay for
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The old adage was true as can be –
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The old adage is "No one ever won an argument with a client
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adage: "build it and they will come"
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The adage ‘Healthy body healthy mind’ is spot on
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the deficiencies and adhere to the adage, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do
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Well, like the old adage says, you snooze, you lose
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“It sure proves the old adage
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personal conviction by the old innocent-until-proven-guilty adage
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The old adage "look before you leap" is very relevant here
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Look for these warning signs and remember the adage “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is
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“You will all have heard the adage, if it sounds too good to be true, it is!
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Rommel was aware of the old adage that he who defends all defends none
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Adage? Yes, that’s all it was, and not necessarily correct
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retreat and burn their own country in an attempt to starve the invading French, Napoleon decided to cut his losses and withdraw from the Russian campaign, proving the old adage of loss in victory
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Driving on North Road Clevedon he considered the old adage, ‘a criminal always returns to the scene of the crime,’ and cynically he was able to agree although he wasn’t returning to relieve his conscience, or gloat
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old adage “There but for the grace of God…” holds this truth
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There is an old adage that says “all work and no play
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The old adage that ‘ the best things in life are free’ is so true! It is also absolutely true that the most precious and valuable gift you can give your children or your elderly relations is your time
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There is an adage: “He who has controlled his mind has controlled the world
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He had tried to even the odds by attempting to learn new spells, but had discovered that the time-honoured adage about old dogs applied equally to wizards who were getting on a bit
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Michael, who was a great believer in the old adage, ‘Where there is life,
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adage that there was 'no honour amongst thieves
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across the nations old adage of unforgettable atrocities
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In defiance of this Victorian adage, inside the hall were more than forty stalls offering tarot
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Won’t the Indian Musalmans’ resentment of the British validate the adage that “one’s meat is another man’s poison”? It’s another matter though that in hindsight it appears that the Pakistani capital-shift from Rawalpindi to Islamabad was a forerunner into its Islamic disaster!
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So the Musalmans have no hadith on that count to fall back upon, and even otherwise, Muhammad’s methods would show that he believed in the adage of ‘ends justifying the means’, rather than in the ‘merits of the means applied’
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What a tragedy that Narasimha Rao’s aide-de-reforms had allowed himself to be reduced into Sonia’s camp clerk, well, as the adage goes, one gets what one deserves, and so ‘we the people of India’ have her family retainer as our Prime Minister, sworn to serve the corrupt Congress household to our disservice
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” But instead of divining the irony of the Islamic martyrdom that the cartoon highlighted, the Musalmans the world over reacted in a way that validates the Persian adage - Ba Khuda diwaana basho, Ba Muhammad hoshiar, which means, Were it about ‘the God’, rant as thou want, Weigh thy words if it comes to Muhammad
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It was not, however, the adage: “a
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There is an old adage that says we have two ears and one
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He quietly repeats the old adage Unks taught him years before
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This is like the old adage, “You have to learn to crawl before you can learn to walk
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However, an adage says that ‘one finger soils the rest nine fingers with oil dirt stain
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An adage says that: a man’s heart is in his stomach,” she told us
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discovered what they have been doing? Well, the old adage, ignore it
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There is no comfort in the old adage
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You’ve heard the old adage, “Haste makes waste
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"None but the brave deserves the fair," says the old adage, and the rule is true in all
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Now, they say that every storm cloud has a silver lining,’ the room was hers, every ear, every eye, ‘and in this particular case,’ she patted the wooden box, ‘that old adage is completely correct
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This could well be listed as a social adage
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great believer in the show-biz adage that ‘the show
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verified, for as the old adage says, sometimes ‘truth
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Everyone knows the adage about an ounce of prevention, but few managed to apply that truism to the environment
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It is a well-known adage that the victor writes history
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Another thing I can throw in the pot at this point is the old adage:
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We’re all familiar with that old adage of “locatiion, locationn, location
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The adage that the literal sense of words is presumptively the true one has been held by all interpreters
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better to do and his mother’s old adage had come to mind, “If someone invites you
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So, bevelling around by Mullett's and the Signal House which they shortly reached, they proceeded perforce in the direction of Amiens street railway terminus, Mr Bloom being handicapped by the circumstance that one of the back buttons of his trousers had, to vary the timehonoured adage, gone the way of all buttons though, entering thoroughly into the spirit of the thing, he heroically made light of the mischance
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where the municipal supernumerary, ex Gumley, was still to all intents and purposes wrapped in the arms of Murphy, as the adage has it, dreaming of fresh fields and pastures new
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There is good justification for the old adage to “cut your losers and let your winners run,” but many traders find this difficult to do in practice
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An old adage says that you don’t have to actually outrun the bear, you simply have to outrun at least one person who’s with you
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There is, however, an old stock market adage for such dealing: always leave some profit for the other fellow
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Another old adage was ‘sell in May and go away until St Leger’s Day’ on the assumption that everybody went away for the summer and returned for the popular horse race that marked the end of the summer lull – hence in the absence of trade, activity was listless and random
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He proved the old adage that you will never see a “successful pessimist
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But there is also an old trader adage that goes: just because a stock is overbought (or oversold) does not mean it cannot get more overbought (or oversold)
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What this familiar trading adage means is that, in general, the well-funded institutional traders often fade (or trade against) the morning momentum, happily handing shares to anxious amateurs, before going off to gorge themselves on a high-fat lunch
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A market adage states that “the trend is your friend” but the complete adage is “the trend is your friend … until it ends
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As the old gambler’s adage says:
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that contrary to the old adage, a man can indeed take it with him
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Our study of the greatest stock market winners proved that the old adage “buy low, sell high” was completely wrong
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In fact, there’s a very good adage that applies here: Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean someone’s not following you
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A curious friendship theirs must have been: a pointed illustration, indeed, of the old adage that “extremes meet
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At that moment a little accident supervened, which seemed decreed by fate purposely to prove the truth of the adage, that “misfortunes never come singly,” and to add to their distresses the vexing one of the slip between the cup and the lip
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Commodities such as corn or soybeans are replanted each year and thus can often enjoy the old adage, “High prices cure high prices
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Among those who practice Japanese candlestick charting, the adage is “go in the direction of the window
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The Drexel analyst, Barry Bryant, had a comment out by Monday, with a long report soon after, that moved the price target from $50 to $55, following that old analysts' adage that if the price moves, change the target and earnings estimate accordingly
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” The truth of this adage was now bitterly felt by the inhabitants of Moscow
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And why should we make a sort of hotch-potch of two subjects, on which we do not think alike, for the purpose of getting us all united against both? It is an old adage, and a very homely one, perhaps too much so for the delicate ears of this assembly, that if you put one addled egg into a pudding, you may add fresh ones, ad infinitum, but you can never sweeten it
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If he had only known, he would have been aware that the people who would recognize him were in their boxes or grand-stand seats, or in the paddock, where society condescends to jostle elbows with stable boys, proving the truth of the adage enunciated by a true sage: “On the turf, and beneath it, all men are equal
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New Haven had furnished us something of a field day, and strong desire, stimulated by encouragement, was shooting out into confidence; but that “one swallow does not make a summer”—a trite old adage we are in danger of forgetting just when we should remember it, was forcefully brought to our minds as we went to New Milford