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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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"If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot." »John A. Dix
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"Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the hall of Fame 5 years in a row." »Ralph Kiner
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"The hall of fame ceremonies are on the 31st and 32nd of July." »Ralph Kiner
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"We met Dr. hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead." »Jane Austen
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"Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life." »Zig Ziglar
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"It's so glamorous, you have to see it. (describing the 92 million Rock & Roll hall of Fame)" »Aretha Franklin
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"Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart." »Washington Irving
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"In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight." »Rabindranath Tagore
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"Don't live in a town where there are no doctors." »Jewish Proverb
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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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"In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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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"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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"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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"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip." »Will Rogers
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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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"The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town." »Eleanor H. Porter
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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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"Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy." »Ernest Rutheford
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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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