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Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot. ↗

— Donald Judd

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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. ↗

— Josh Billings

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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. ↗

— Josh Billings

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The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running. ↗

— Dennis Banks

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Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth. ↗

— Mac Barnett

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Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. ↗

— Josh Billings

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Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. ↗

— Josh Billings

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When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him. ↗

— Josh Billings

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash. ↗

— Josh Billings

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