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Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing. – Author Unknown
Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out. – Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us – Orison Swett Marden
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming-- and a little mad. – Alfred North Whitehead
If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard - let him worry about cutting it. – Fred Allen
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
In order for one to come off as a professional at something is to vehemently disagree with other professionals. People have blind faith in confident fools – Ahmed Korayem
Start cutting corners on whatever it is you do and those corners will seek to get even with you sooner or later – Ahmed Korayem
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. – Virginia
The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament. – Steve Jobs
The politician is ... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him. – Edward R. Murrow
The problem with the cutting edge is that someone has to bleed. – Zalman Stern
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. – Jonathan Swift
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair. – George Burns
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. – George Burns

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