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If the commission isn't popping the champagne in response, I would be very surprised.


Jonathan Zuck

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MARLA BACKER That makes me a little sick. I would be very, very surprised if he doesn't fight it (extradition).
KAREN OVERACKER We would be very surprised if he says anything that deviates from the party line.
ADAM BROWN I guess in the champagne and caviar world that many Republicans live in, I would be happier, too.
BILL MAER I'm not hearing anything like that, and I would be very, very surprised.
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LAWRENCE WELK I would be surprised if it stays on the site rest of the day.
JIM TUTWILER I would be really surprised if they announced a settlement.
DANA HAYTER I would not be surprised if there were additional deaths,
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BOB HUNEFELD I would not be surprised if he doesn't invite them to give him the death penalty.
STEPHEN SALTZBURG My old man always told me never do anything during the day that will keep you awake at night.
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IRWIN COTLER I would kill the clone. That would be my first response.
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JONATHAN SWIFT A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign p...
JONATHAN SWIFT Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
JONATHAN SWIFT So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller sti...
JONATHAN SWIFT A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent ...
JONATHAN SWIFT A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.
JONATHAN SWIFT He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be p...
JONATHAN SWIFT Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts wit...
JONATHAN SWIFT Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is...
JONATHAN SCHATTKE Necessity is the mother of invention.
JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that th...
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFT It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguishe...
JONATHAN SWIFT