“ I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the county than in the hands of a politically appointed judge. ”
- Robert Morgenthau- Copy
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“ I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip. ”
- Billy Bob Thornton- Copy
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“ The distance-learning program will revolutionize the way we teach our children in Alabama forever. Just think about it: A kid in rural Clay County or Wilcox County will have the opportunity to take advanced physics, calculus, or even Chinese. ”
- Bob Riley- Copy
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“ A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up "with people who are persuaded by persons whom they do not know to enter into contracts that they do not understand to purchase goods that they do not want with money that they have not got… ”
- Lord Greene- Copy
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“ I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10 % of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. ”
- Berke Breathed- Copy
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“ Why is it, when 638 people voted at a precinct in Franklin County, a voting machine awarded 4,258 extra votes to George Bush? Thankfully, they fixed it, but how many other votes did the computers get wrong? ”
- Barbara Boxer- Copy
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“ Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England. ”
- Archibald MacLeish- Copy
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“ After the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, the Legislature of New York directed a survey of a state road which was to be constructed at public expense through the southern tier of counties from the Hudson River to Lake Erie. ”
- John Moody- Copy
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