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"William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I remember how the other kids used to say that old Mister Swenson was the meanest man in town. But I said I thought he was nice, that he just didn't know how to show it. The meanest man in town, I said, was the mean old guy who lived in the big white house. 'THAT'S MISTER SWENSON,' they said. Oh, my mistake." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O." »Martin Mull
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"Don't live in a town where there are no doctors." »Jewish Proverb
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"In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I wish a robot would get elected President. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip." »Will Rogers
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"The Joker What kind of a world is this where a man dressed as a bat gets ALL MY PRESS This town needs an enema" »Batman
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"I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow)" »Ronald Reagan
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"To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well" »Author Unknown
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"The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town." »Eleanor H. Porter
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"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip." »Will Rogers
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"I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes." »Fidel Castro
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"An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry." »Thomas Jefferson
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"We used to laugh at Grandpa when he'd head off to go fishing. But we wouldn't be laughing that evening, when he'd come back with some whore he picked up in town." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Nothing ever gets settled in this town. ... a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer." »George Pratt Shultz
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"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow." »Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
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"When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring." »Oscar Wilde, Jack from The Importance of Being Earnest
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"I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election." »Margaret Hilda Thatcher
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"From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. (On signing law for inclusion of the words 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance, 14 Jun 54)" »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"A small town is a place where there is no place to go where you shouldn't." »Burt Bacharach
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"Trent You know I used to wait two days to call anybody, but now it's like everyone in town waits two days. So I think three days is kind of money. What do you think" »Swingers
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"One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world." »Andrew Schneider
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"A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles ... an amateur promoter, a glad-hander, embryo Rotarian, caf-society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind." »Harold Taylor
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"One mind awake can awaken another, The second awake can awaken their next door brother. Three awake can awaken the town By turning the whole place upside down. Many awake can make such a fuss That they finally awaken the rest of us." »Helen Kromer
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"For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not remind us of intelligent human design. "If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence."" »J.W.N. Sullivan
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"Ace The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids Junk bonds. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing" »Casino
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