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"purchase not friends by gifts when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love." »Thomas Fuller
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"purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love." »Thomas Fuller
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"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power." »Benjamin Franklin
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"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"Marriage is like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it." »Kenneth Hartley Blanchard
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"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive." »Wallace Irwin
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"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed." »Epicurus
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"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents." »Arthur Schopenhauer
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"A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own." »Adam Smith
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"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents." »Arthuer Schopenhauer
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"The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling." »Thomas Hardy
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"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty." »Anton Chekhov
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"Ther's some trophy value to having artists of this magnitude. (after his client signed an 80 million contract with Virgin Records)" »Don Passmani
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"When the opponent expand, I contract, When he contracts, I expand, And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit--it hits all by itself." »Bruce Lee
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"If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper." »Francis Quarles
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"Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation." »Walter Winchell
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"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.)" »John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
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"All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government." »Ellen Goodman
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"You signed a contract. But much more important than that, you gave your word. And I intend to hold you to that word within the bounds of the law. If necessary, without the bounds of the law." »John and Brand, Josh Falsey
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"If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery." »Charles Krauthammer
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