Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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Your prosperity will only grow as fast as you do. ~Randy Gage
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go. ~Charles Bukowski
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market. ~Henry Paulson
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Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. ~Jimi Hendrix
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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Everything I say is true. ~Laura Schlessinger
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size. ~Kurdish Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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There is no such thing as a free lunch. ~English Proverb
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I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more "dates" than me. ~George Hamilton
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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On reflection, Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, this wasn't one of your better plans. ~Chris Wooding
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic 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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