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“Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, "What's in it for me?"”

Peter De Vries quotes (American comic visionary, Editor, Novelist, Satirist and Linguist. 1910-1993)

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“When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat.”

Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)

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“The commercial world is very frequently put into confusion by the bankruptcy of merchants, that assumed the splendour of wealth only to obtain the privilege of trading with the stock of other men, and of contracting debts which nothing but lucky casu”

Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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“If you're in the contracting business in this country, you're suspect. If you're in the contracting business in New Jersey, you're indictable. If you're in the contracting business in New Jersey and are Italian, you're convicted.”

Raymond J. Donovan quotes

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“It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind, or brain-damage (sic) baby even ten years la”

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“The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. quotes (American Judge and Jurist, He was called The Great Dissenter; He often disagreed with the conservative majority. 1841-1935)

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“A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her”

Helen Rowland quotes (English-American writer, 1876-1950)

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“It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract”

Alan Shepherd quotes

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“It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.”

Brooks Robinson quotes (American professional baseball player, b. 1937)

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“Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.”

Confucius quotes (China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC)

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“After all my years, there are two things I've never got used to - haggling with a player over his contract and telling a boy he's got to go back.”

Connie Mack quotes

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“I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.”

Groucho Marx quotes (American Comedian, Actor and Singer, 1890-1977)

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“Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.”

George Bernard Shaw quotes (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)

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“Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”

Edmund Burke quotes (British Statesman and Philosopher, 1729-1797)

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“The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.”

Robert A. Heinlein quotes (American science-fiction Writer, 1907-1988)

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