"Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them"
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"Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence."
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"No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in."
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"If we all had all we wanted to eat, we'd crap too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry."
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"She loved mysteries so much that she became one."
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"I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back."
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"As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers."
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"It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined."
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"The commercial paper market, when that dries up, you know, that's just like sucking the blood out of the economic body of the United States."
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"If you stay in a house and you go to the bathroom and there is no toilet paper, you can always slide down the banisters. Don't tell me you haven't done it."
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"In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that I created."
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"Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty."
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"So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record."
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"For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously as Tony Blair took what he would say at the Despatch Box. I find it very difficult not to tell the truth. I felt I was accountable for what I said."
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"I used to cut out paper dolls."
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"Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked: 'Account Overdrawn.'"
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"Paper is more patient than man."
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"Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall."
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"Shares are not mere pieces of paper. They represent part ownership of a business. So, when contemplating an investment, think like a prospective owner."
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"The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny."
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