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"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes." »Carl Sandburg
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"Don't open a shop unless you know how to smile." »Jewish Proverb
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"Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water." »Swedish Proverb
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"Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire." »William Butler Yeats
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"Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull." »H. L. Mencken
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"Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop you bucket where you are." »Sam Walter Foss, Back Country Poems, 1892
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"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket." »George Orwell
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"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business." »Abraham Lincoln
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"It is occasionally possible to charge hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain." »Doris Fleeson
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"Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes in it to drain it dry." »Alvin Price
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"The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop." »Edwin Conklin
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"It is a kind of policy in these days to prefix a fantastical title to a book which is to be sold; for as larks come down to a day-net, many vain readers will tarry and stand gazing, like silly passengers, at an antic picture in a painter?s shop that will not look at a judicious piece." »Burton
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"One of the diseases of this age is the multitude of books. It is a thriftless and a thankless occupation, this writing of books: a man were better to sing in a cobbler?s shop, for his pay is a penny a patch; but a book-writer, if he get sometimes a few commendations from the judicious, he shall be sure to reap a thousand reproaches from the malicious." »Barnaby Rich
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"I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police." »Janina Atkins
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"you can't live life without consequences. They occur regardless of the decision. A consequence is an outcome, good or bad. You can live life without regrets and thats what makes it worth it. Or you could live with regret and end up hanging yourself but thats still good. You paid for the rope so your feeding someones family. Something to be proud of before you kick the bucket" »George Orwell
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"In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that men know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is look at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood shop eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home." »Dave Barry
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