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If Iraqi disarmament were a five-lap race, we would be three quarters of the way around the fifth and final lap.


Richard Butler

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EDDIE JORDAN I knew the last lap would be high speed, and I still felt OK.
BENJAMIN LIMO Holes open up and guys jump in them. But that's something we should be doing on lap 150, not lap 10.
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CASEY MEARS This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.
CHARLES S. DUTTON Lap of providence.
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JIMMY SPENCER Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.
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TOM BOONEN Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.
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SAMUEL BUTLER It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has s...
SAMUEL BUTLER Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he...
SAMUEL BUTLER It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came f...
SAMUEL BUTLER He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
SAMUEL BUTLER A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not se...
SAMUEL BUTLER The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not bein...
SAMUEL BUTLER The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
SAMUEL BUTLER The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
SAMUEL BUTLER Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
SAMUEL BUTLER The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
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