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"How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense Department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack." »James Barrett Scotty Reston
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"There should be less talk a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough." »Mother Theresa
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"There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return." »Dag Hammarskjld
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"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate." »Sun-tzu
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"A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards." »Alan Simpson
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"My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"I've been thinking about that old Zen conundrum what's the sound of one hand clapping My personal opinion--nothing. You don't have two hands, you don't have any clapping. It's as simple as that. Stars, galaxies, clapping hands, what's the point The point is that we all need somebody, whether you're a supercluster or a little proton, a yin or a yang. Everybody is hooked into everybody else." »Geoffrey Neighor
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"Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across." »Guy Kawasaki
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"It may be five years from now, but at some point we'll be better than them." »Dan Issel
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"There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." »Carrie
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"So as this only point among the rest remaineth sure and certain, namely, that nothing is certain." »Plato
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"At any given point of time, you are exactly what you wanted to be." »Vinny Nayak
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"The world is round it has no point." »Adrienne E. Gusoff
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"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is." »Desiderius Erasmus
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"For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it." »James 210 Bible
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"I write music with an exclamation point" »Richard Wagner
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"The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting." »Amanda Cross
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"Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view." »George Bush
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"Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"Strain every nerve to gain your point." »Cicero
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"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you." »Mortimer Adler
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"The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come." »Peter Ustinov
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"The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it." »Plutarch
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"There's no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site." »Sydney Harris
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"It is fast approaching the point where I don't want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the job." »Erma Bombeck
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"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself." »George Bernard Shaw
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"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone." »Lady Reading
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"Differences in political opinion are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary." »George Washington
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"Don't point out your flaws, because the world is not as sympathetic and nurturing as you think." »Jennifer Tilly
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"We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations." »Benjamin Netanyahu
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