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cutting giving wealth
Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later. Charles Caleb Colton
cutting lions teeth
He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.
cute time years
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
cutting men turkeys
It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off. Charles Dickens
cutting garden weather
In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight.
cutting popularity minutes
I know God can cut it (popularity) off in a minute. Charles Stanley
cutting stones firsts
Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant. Charles Spurgeon
cutting scripture ifs
If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!
cutting years bangs
Billions of years ago you were a big bang. But now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off. And don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are. Alan Watts
learning enemy safe
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
learning ignorance knowledge
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.
learning evolution programming
Optimization hinders evolution. Alan Perlis
learning nouns programming
Any noun can be verbed.
learning thinking language
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
learning thinking knowing
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
learning machines program
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
learn offspring reason
We want them to go back to doing what they used to do, which is migrate. The reason they migrate is for food. When they don't migrate, their offspring don't learn to migrate. Bruce Barber
learn people stop tolerant
We want to stop profiling. The more that people learn about Islam, the more tolerant they become.
mistake power order
It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.
mistake greatness ignorant
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
mistake flirting errors
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
mistake ignorance writing
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
mistake creativity science
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
mistake block sweat
Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing. Charles Stross
mistake ends chains
Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.
mistake men thank-god
Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest.
mistake beginning-middle-and-end execution
A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.
reagan
Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall. Rick Perlstein
reagan
One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people. Douglas Brinkley
reagan schools
We had to take two schools out of the Reagan area.
reagan
Reagan was a pure liberation, free-and-fair election American.
taxi-cabs car weapons
No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences. David R. Ellis
taxes cents
I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax. Alan Sugar
taxed
Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Lysander Spooner
taxes
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
tax
You do not need to be a tax expert. In fact, you can be a tax idiot.
taxation sugar commodity
Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation. Adam Smith
taxes raises uncertainty
You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty. Jason Chaffetz
taxes
We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones. Charles Adams
taxation citizens indirect
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without. Albert Camus
voted
Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office. Nate Silver
voted
We voted for the one who can make a change, Ahmed Ali
voted
I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified.
voted
I voted the way I thought we had to.
voted wake
I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote. Nelson Mandela
voted
I voted for Bush, and I don't have anything to disapprove of.
voted
This is where I voted from, this is where I live, this is it. Paul Lowe
voted
It will be like 'Survivor.' We'll see which ones get voted off the island.
worthy
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest. Denis Waitley
worthy
We're doing what we can. We think it's a worthy cause.
worthy
potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself. Joseph Kahn
worthy proving-yourself prove
You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be. Alice Hoffman
worthy
We're really working to make this a show worthy of the audience's time.
worthy
And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
worthy difficulty intervention
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.] Horace
worthy obligation
To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement. Pierre Charron
worthy companion murderer
A murderer was a worthy companion. Philip Pullman