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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Whats great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. – Andy Warhol

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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. – Samuel Johnson

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Americas fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed. – Allen Boyd

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I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. – Thomas Huxley

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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. – Michel de Montaigne

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I like to think the movies that Ive picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant. – Mark Ruffalo

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It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads. – Scott McCallum

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In the sixties, you could always insult a guy by calling him “plastic.” It meant he was phony or superficial. The opposite of plastic was “real.” – Elizabeth Royte, Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, 2005

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