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All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.
Mark Twain
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Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education.
Roy Wilkins
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I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.
Jimmy Piersall
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The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.
Philip Yancey
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the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.
Ralph Ellison
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The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.
Wallace Smith Broecker