Dale Carnegie
Author, Speaker
"Applause is a receipt, not a bill."
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Bills
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Lord Byron
Poet, Novelist
"Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills."
Malcolm Gladwell
Journalist, Author
"There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria."
Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill."
Rich Lowry
Political Commentator
"Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters."
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"What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?"
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"I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation."
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"Flying makes me feel like a sex maniac in a whorehouse with a stack of $20 bills."
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"It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes.""
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"[I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many."
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"Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later."
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"So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided."
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"Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing."
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"You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill."
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"Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business."
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"God cures and the doctor sends the bill."
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"Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved."
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"The next time you get the urge to shut somebody up because they don't see the world exactly the same way you do, take a deep breath, get out your Bill of Rights, and count to the ten amendments."
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"If you pass the ball to Bill Cartwright, you'll never get the ball from me."
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"Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse."
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"We have to deal with the 11 million individuals who are here illegally. The bill that Senator [Marco] Rubio put forward, I think is a great place to start."
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"Bill Hicks - blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built."
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"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."
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"The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights."
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"If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah's money he'd jump out the window."
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