What is money, after all? Almost nothing, when one has a sufficiency of it.


John Banville

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In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
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I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
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Get off your butt and join the Marines!
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Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
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Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
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You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what yo...
JOHN BOLTON
Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
JOHN BOLTON
Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the tw...
JOHN BOLTON
I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the '...
JOHN BOLTON
People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on ...
JOHN BOLTON
There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.
JOHN BOLTON
North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.
JOHN BOLTON
I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three...
JOHN BOLTON
A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get...
JOHN BOLTON
The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.
JOHN BOLTON
I don't do carrots.
JOHN BOLTON
My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that sma...
JOHN BOLTON
Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
JOHN BOLTON
Reform is not a one-night stand.
JOHN BOLTON
I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because t...
JOHN BOLTON
There is no such thing as the United Nations.
JOHN BOLTON
Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States...
JOHN BOLTON
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuin...
JOHN BOLTON
We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing ...
JOHN BOLTON
There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 ...
JOHN BOLTON
In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instrume...
JOHN BOLTON
It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but...
JOHN BOLTON
Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your ...
JOHN BOLTON
I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.
JOHN BOLTON
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
JOHN ACTON
My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches.
JOHN MCENROE
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the pre...
JOHN RUSKIN
There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.
JOHN ASHCROFT
If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just g...
JOHN LYDON
It's a challenge to grow professionally and move up the corporate ladder when you're not rec...
JOHN RAMPTON
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you reall...
JOHN WOODEN
I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is ra...
JOHN SUNUNU