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All Quotes Collection
"This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact."
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"The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society."
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"No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax."
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"No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security."
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"Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity."
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"Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community."
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"In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster."
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"Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?"
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"Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to."
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"You know we're going to control the insurance companies."
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"It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes."
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"Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping."
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"Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."
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"Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones."
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"Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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"Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."
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"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."
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"It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better."
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"Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree."
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"Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions."
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"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."
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"Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
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"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."
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"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
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"Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support."
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"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."
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"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt."
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"Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage."
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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
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"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."
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"Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while."
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"Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence."
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"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."
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"Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly."
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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
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"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."
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"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."
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"Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success."
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"Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing."
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"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."
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"Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion."
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"Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy."
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"Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen."
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