"Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket."
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"If a pickpocket meets a Holy Man, he will see only His pockets."
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"Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State."
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"You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world."
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"Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it."
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"When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off."
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"An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket."
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"Every time I see a coin on the street, I stop, pick it up, put it into my pocket, and say out loud "Thank you, God, for this symbol of abundance that keeps flowing into my life" Never once have I asked, "Why only a penny, God? You know I need a lot more than that.""
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"Like: 'Don't walk out there with one hand in your pocket unless there's somethin' in there you're going to bring out.' You gotta commit. You've gotta go out there and improvise and you've gotta be completely unafraid to die. You've got to be able to take a chance to die. And you have to die lots. You have to die all the time."
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"Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared."
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"God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance."
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"My tears is tatted, my rag in my pocket / Im just looking for love, I know somebody got it"
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"The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent."
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"One of the ironies of the stock market is the emphasis on activity. Brokers, using terms such as 'marketability' and 'liquidity,' sing the praises of companies with high share turnover... but investors should understand that what is good for the croupier is not good for the customer. A hyperactive stock market is the pick pocket of enterprise."
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"A running quarterback, to me, is safer. Because, once I got out [of the pocket], I didn?t run where there were a lot of people. I ran where there was nobody."
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"When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world."
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"The American people have a right to know that, when Donald Trump's making decisions, they are being made in their best interests without him lining his pockets."
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"Music is split up now into little pockets."
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"One of the things I've been thinking about lately is how the change in values makes the survival of the old values, where they do survive, all the more striking. There are pockets of the old bullfighting world that exist more or less intact, both in Spain and elsewhere."
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"Do you want to trust your life in God's pocket or keep it in your own?"
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