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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My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart; I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ~Tony Parsons
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. ~Ray Bradbury
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It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. ~Robert Dold
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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And by the way, showers. Look into them, Doug! ~Rachel Caine
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ~Paulo Coelho
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Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power. ~Ron Paul
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life. ~John Stamos
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. ~Dan Brown
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When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste. ~Rick Danko
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I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself; and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them. ~Ashley Tisdale
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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