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The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#additional #already #approved #argument #authorize

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#grow #horrifying #occasionally #older #pants

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. ↗

— Stendhal

#cannot #certain #certain things #even #every

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#according #everyone #height #line #right

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams. ↗

— Robert A. M. Stern

#about #any #architect #because #between

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#care #enjoy #enough #health #hoarding

Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments. ↗

— Jim Evans

#cues #early #enough #making #missed

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. ↗

— John Portman

#around #buildings #other #people #serve

Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#clothes #collections #everything #expect #expensive

Throughout the evening I would be recording these long saxophone delays and about four hours into the concert, if I wanted to take a break I would just play back the saxophone. ↗

— Terry Riley

#back #break #concert #delays #evening