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"In producers, loafing is productive and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation." »Jacques Martin Barzun
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"You're never really alive until you skip a heart-beat, and you don't really skip a heart-beat until you see someone whose smile lights up the whole room." »Sana O. Dabbas
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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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"Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. skip the third." »Knute Rockne
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"Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them." »John Ruskin
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"Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them." »John Ruskin
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town." »Eleanor H. Porter
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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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"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip." »Will Rogers
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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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"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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