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"I can't see myself changing nappies and cooking dinner for too long. I'm too independent to live off a man's earnings." »Manisha Koirala
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"I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"The report of my death was an exaggeration." »Mark Twain
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"This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read." »Winston Churchill
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"I was alarmed at my doctor's report He said I was sound as a dollar." »Ronald Reagan
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"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." »Will Rogers
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"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand." »Bertrand Russell
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"The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them." »Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-30-03
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"Whosoever lends a greedy ear to a slanderous report is either himself of a radically bad disposition or a mere child in sense." »Menander
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"I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they happen to strike me." »E. B. White
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"report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable." »Tom Margerison, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
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"If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened." »Newt Gingrich
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"And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report." »Dave Barry
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"No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report...." »Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109
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"Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it." »William Penn
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"Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it." »William Penn
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"Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income -- which he then spends sending his son to college." »Bill Vaughan
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"If I am to die, this is the week for it. -- John F. Kennedy (to aide John McClone in response to a CIA report about rumours of an assassination plot), June 1962." »John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]
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"In no wise ask about the faults of others, for he who reporteth the faults of others will report thine also." »Firdausi
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"A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67." »Norman R. Augustine
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"Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel." »Andrew Schneider
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"In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the White House for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the White House tells us." »Connie Chung to Johnny Carson
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"It is expected from the government officials and the financial sector to selectively report on the good news to avoid investors panic and maintain confidence in the economy. Unfortunately building confidence has been the name of the game since the beginning of the crisis rather than real economic reforms." »Med Jones
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"Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam." »A. Whitney Griswold
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