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“But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth tem times more, I should guess, That he had not a thing in the wide world to wear!”
Source : William Allen Butler (1871). “Poems”, p.72
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“I'm sure the gasoline companies would love to keep their 100 percent monopoly on transportation fuel.”
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“We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.”
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“To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake.”
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“Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another person in your predicament.”
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“I don't go out of my way to be outrageous, I just go out of my way to look at things.”
Source : "Dave Allen's comic quotes", news.bbc.co.uk. March 11, 2005.
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“It makes no sense for us to consider going back there and getting involved in what truly is a religious civil war. What real difference would (air strikes) make on the ground? And secondly, is it in the best interests of the United States to do that? I would say that those questions are not being answered in a compelling way that would cause me to support that.”
Source : "Gabbard: Back to Iraq 'makes no sense'" by Jonathan Topaz, www.politico.com. June 13, 2014.
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“I've met Nelson Mandela a couple of times and it was an unbelievable experience on both occasions; the most amazing moment of my life.”
Source : Source: amy-cricket.blogspot.com