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" Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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" When you've got African parents, you go to uni, do finance, and go into accounting. But I'm not good with systems. I dropped out in my final year of college to become a Christian poet. Then went back to do my A-levels and went to uni in Birmingham to do political science and theology. I lasted 12 weeks. "
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" I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. "
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" I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger. "
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" I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your business and to finance growth. Plus: You have more liquid shares. It is easier to leave the company and redeem your shares. The 'going public' may also be an exit strategy for the top management. "
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" Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. "
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" Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks. "
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" Earnestness is stupidity sent to college. "
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Stupidity
College
" Seriousness is stupidity sent to college. "
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College
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Seriousness
" As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics Masters Degree in 1958 and my Ph.D. in 1959. "
Francois Englert
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Physics
New
" Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else. "
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Bridge
" We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting. "
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" We're extremely excited about the assets that Yahoo has in the areas of Sports and Finance and Email and News. You match those up with AOL, and we've just made an exponential leap in capabilities here. "
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Leap
Finance
" The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows. "
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You
Retirement
" TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence. "
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Internet
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Mean
" In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old. "
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" In the US, banking and finance are regulated on the federal and state level, there are multiple federal bank regulators, and there are separate securities and commodities regulators. "
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" People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively. "
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" Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising. "
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" The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it. "
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" I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer. "
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" For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sources of funding for his 2012 reelection campaign are from the insurance, banking, finance, securities and real estate industries. "
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" To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal. "
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" And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way. "
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" The economy is a very sensitive organism. "
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" I think there's a number of pillars to success. One is you've got to have a great idea. The other is you've got to have a constituency, you've got to have finance, and you've got to be able to raise awareness. "
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" Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come. "
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Money
You
" I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Blame
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Republican
" There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. "
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