“ What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the "blessing" of idleness and won for us the "curse" of labor. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more. ”
- Candice Bergen- Copy
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“ Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. ”
- Anais Nin- Copy
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“ There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation — veneer isn't worth anything. ”
- George Washington Carver- Copy
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“ An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead. ”
- Nancy Mitford- Copy
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“ He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust. ”
- John Webster- Copy
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“ Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again. ”
- Pericles- Copy
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“ Summer's morning wakes with a ring of birds, and everything is as distinctly cut as if it stood in heaven and not on earth. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ Don't get excited about a tax cut. It's like a mugger giving you back car fare. ”
- Arnold H. Glasow- Copy
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“ Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ If you need medical advice, let these three things be your physicians; a cheerful mind, relaxation from business, and a moderate diet. ”
- Schola Salern- Copy
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“ I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election. ”
- Pervez Musharraf- Copy
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“ I didn't want to be ignored. I didn't want my books to be ignored. But I didn't really care to cut such a figure either because... well, it interferes with the business of writing. ”
- Saul Bellow- Copy
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“ O, he's a limb that has but a disease: Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ My angel, — his name is Freedom, — Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut. ”
- Benjamin J. Montalbano- Copy
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“ What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ They want the rhetoric to end and they want to concentrate on what they do best. ”
- Robert Iger- Copy
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“ The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, that she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife. ”
- Henry Glassford Bell- Copy
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“ They choose the tax cuts over extending the solvency of Social Security and Medicare. ”
- Dick Gephardt- Copy
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