#be

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. ↗

— Josh Billings

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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems. ↗

— Paul Hawken

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It does seem fair to give them the option of a better return. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

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Right-to-life groups won't fund us because we're Democrats. ↗

— Bart Stupak

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It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing. ↗

— Gordon Waller

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I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation. ↗

— John Spratt

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The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964. ↗

— John Bolton

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