The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can postpone our next invasion of a Middle Eastern country for two to three years. ~Jay Leno
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You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck; and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee; or you can go out and become an entrepreneur. ~Al Michaels
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that is largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies. ~Richard Branson
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too. ~Kelley Armstrong
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I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out. ~Yelawolf
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A silent mouth is melodious. ~Irish Proverb
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Our problem with desire is that we want too little. ~C. S. Lewis
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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I am too pure for you or anyone. ~Sylvia Plath
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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Once I saw my parents argue because we didn't have a lot of money anymore. So, I did what I had to do. I got my piggy bank and I went out to the backyard and buried it. ~Jack Handey
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally. ~Vince Lombardi
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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