"I think once you start putting phony figures into financial statements, you get in a lot of trouble. And we've seen so much of that in the last 20 years."
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"If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office."
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"Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last."
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"Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job."
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"My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time."
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"There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say."
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"Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian."
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"Rest you fair, good signior; Your worship was the last man in our mouths."
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"The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet."
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"Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii"
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"This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable."
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"Although the last, not least."
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"Small service is true service, while it lasts."
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"Our love, our love will last forever. It's forever but it just doesn't work. That's why it will always be romantic because it can not be complete."
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"The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Its prescriptions are clear and we know what they arebut life is always your last and most authoritative critic."
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"At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it."
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"Every election is important and each election says it's more important than the last."
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"I'm really happy, and beating Marc [Marquez] at the very last chicane gives me an extra boost."
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"We are none of us promised anything but the last breath we take."
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"I wanted more firsts with Tod. But all I had left was a handful of lasts."
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