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"Well, Mr. secretary, I lived in a house without electricity too. No running water, no telephone...I can stand toe-to-toe with you. in response to Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill" »Robert C. Byrd
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"The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people." »William John Bennett
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"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something." »Richard Feynman
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"Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye." »Daniel J. Boorstin
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"I don't say that the bird is 'good' or the bat is 'bad.' But I will say this At least the bird is less nude." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"When the wind stops, kite falls but bird flies; because bird did not borrow the wind when rising!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise." »Ivan Pavlov
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"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song" »John Burroughs
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"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!" »John Burroughs, Birds and Poets, 1887
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"If you want to make certain a job gets done, give it to somebody who is really busy. They'll have their secretary do it." »Joe Moore
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"Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people." »George Pratt Shultz
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"When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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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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"Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state." »David Dean Rusk
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"You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don't give a damn. to secretary of State Henry Kissinger on civilian casualties in Vietnam" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing at the keyboard with one finger. As a learning environment, it may be mentally rich, but it is perceptually extremely impoverished. No smells or tastes, no wind or bird song (unless the computer is programmed to produce electronic tweets), no connection with soil, water, sunlight, warmth, the actual learning environment is almost autistic in quality, impoverished sensually, emotionally, and socially." »John Davy
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"I'd rather use the nuclear bomb...Does that bother you I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake. to secretary of State Henry Kissinger on escalating the Vietnam War" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"I know why the caged bird sings." »Maya Angelou
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"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
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"I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks and it can't fly very high." »Wilbur Wright
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"Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way." »Goethe
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"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship." »William Blake
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"bird cage is nice only when it is empty!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest." »J. G. Holland
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"Each bird loves to hear himself sing." »Arapaho Proverb
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"I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!" »Jerry Van Amerongen, Ballard Street, 08-18-05
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"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest." »Swedish Proverb
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"That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed." »Robert Heinlein, Time Enough For Love
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"If I could be a bird, I think I'd be a penguin, because then I could walk around on two feet with a lot of other guys like me." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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