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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.


John L. Motley

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HENRY DAVID THOREAU No one takes my life away from me. I give it up of my own free will. [John 10:18]
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ANUJ SOMANY Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become it...
DOUGLAS HURD It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; wh...
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DEBRA ROBERTS Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
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BENEDICT ARNOLD Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
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CLIVE BELL God does not give us overcoming life— He gives us life as we overcome.
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MARK EPSTEIN Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish t...
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BEN ELLIOT ... a place where they dispense with justice.
ARTHUR TRAIN To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment
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SUSAN BARBARA APOLLON Court... a place where they dispense with justice.
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RANDALL L. STEPHENSON E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic tru...
VERNON L. SMITH After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a ve...
VERNON L. SMITH I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
VERNON L. SMITH In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions an...
VERNON L. SMITH Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
VERNON L. SMITH After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary ...
VERNON L. SMITH I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made wit...
VERNON L. SMITH But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought...
J. L. AUSTIN Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictur...
J. L. AUSTIN Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
J. L. AUSTIN There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
J. L. AUSTIN Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremo...
J. L. AUSTIN Sentences are not as such either true or false.
J. L. AUSTIN Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
J. L. AUSTIN In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we adm...
J. L. AUSTIN Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
JACK L. WARNER I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
JACK L. WARNER I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
JACK L. CHALKER I write novels and other things.
JACK L. CHALKER I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
JACK L. CHALKER If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
JACK L. CHALKER I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
JACK L. CHALKER