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"One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider." »Damon Runyon
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"Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit." »Jerry Coleman
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"Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus." »Jerry Coleman
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"Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks." »Laura Swenson
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"When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever." »Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
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"If the captain invited me to his party, after he had whipped me earlier in the day, up on deck, I guess I'd go, but I'd try to find some excuse to leave early." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"He that is down can fall no lower." »Samuel Butler
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"To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense." »Napoleon I
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"Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes." »Oswald Spengler
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"The higher the buildings, the lower the morals." »Noel Coward
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"There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher." »Victor Hugo
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"Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head." »Carole Burnett
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"No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver." »Kahlil Gibran
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"The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty." »Nelson Rockefeller
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"The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class." »Paul Fussell
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"Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem." »William Shakespeare
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"When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well" »John Milton
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"Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry." »Havelock Ellis
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"Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty..." »Senator William Grayson
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"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift of religion. We must all at length rest back upon God." »W. E. Orchard
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"Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones." »I Ching
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"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist." »Ayn Rand
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"Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted." »Ralph W. Sockman
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"While the slightest inconveniences of the great are magnified into calamities, while tragedy mouths out their sufferings in all the strains of eloquence, the miseries of the poor are entirely disregarded; and yet some of the lower ranks of people undergo more real hardships in one day than those of a more exalted station suffer in their whole lives." »Goldsmith
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"The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time." »Johannes Meister Eckhart
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"We go up to the high places not to see what is up there but to see how the lower places look from the top!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life...
Higher emotions, and table manners." »Deanna Troi, _Imzadi_, Star Trek - The Next Generation
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"Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success." »Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.
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"There are three social classes in America upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class." »Judith Martin
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