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• We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget.

  Carl Pope

  Oil, America, Lines

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• The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Balance, Usual, United States

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• Congress allows lemonade to the members and has it charged under the head of stationery-I move also that whiskey be allowed under the item of fuel.

  Davy Crockett

  Moving, Fuel, Whiskey

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• Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how to make sentences forever and you will know too when what you are writing doesn't make the grade because it has degenerated into a mere pile of discrete items.

  Stanley Fish

  Writing, Practice, Forever

  "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

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• My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Daughter, Flash, Objects

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• If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Winter, Car, Growth

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• An item must have a soul, it must function properly, be nice to hold and a pleasure to look at

  Kay Bojesen

  Nice, Soul, Looks

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• I could croak with no warning, and the only tragedy anyone would experience would be showing up on the last day of my estate sale simply to discover that all remaining items had copious amounts of dog hair on them.

  Laurie Notaro

  Dog, Hair, Tragedy

  Laurie Notaro (2011). “It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy”, p.64, Villard

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• Of course, when it comes to Japanese role-playing games, in any role-playing game in Japan you're supposed to collect a huge number of items, and magic, and you've got to actually combine different items together to make something really different.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Playing Games, Japan, Numbers

  "Q&A: Shigeru Miyamoto Looks Into Nintendo's Future". Interview with Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. December 13, 2011.

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• Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Important, Tuition

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.39, Graphic Arts Books

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• I try to think about items that can be worn in different ways so they can be worn more than once.

  Joseph Altuzarra

  Thinking, Trying, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The color, the shape, and the texture--none of it is accidental. Every item we wear has a glorious (or sometimes not so glorious) history, and that history extends back years--centuries, even--before Oscar de la Renta's 2002 collection.

  Tim Gunn

  Color, Years, Texture

  Tim Gunn, Ada Calhoun (2013). “Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• I love advertising because I love lying. I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Wisdom, Lying, Thinking

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• The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south.

  Kit Williams

  Men, Hands, Wheels

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• Number one, we need to get in shape, number two we need to shoot, number three, we need to learn self-defense, and number four, we need to study small-unit tactics... If you do not have 5,000 rounds of .223, 5,000 rounds of .22 and 1,000 rounds of handgun ammo, as a MINIMUM, you're wrong. We need to train our families how to shoot as well. We need to get food. We need to have a year's supply of food, two years supply of seeds, we need to have a year's supply of sundry items. That's what it means to be an American. We prepare for the worst but hope for the best.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Mean, Years

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• I've always been homeschooled, so doing it on set is kind of the same thing. My mom makes it very interactive - we'll get a book on chocolate and learn how to make it, or she will buy antique items. I love military history, the mechanics and strategy of it.

  Atticus Shaffer

  Mom, Military, Book

  "A Day Out With The Middle Kids". Interview with Ingela Ratledge, www.tvguide.com. February 8, 2012.

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• My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.

  Felicity Jones

  Italian, Vanity, Bags

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• At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried with him and in which he tirelessly entered in the form of quotations what daily living and reading netted him in the way of "pearls" and "coral." On occasion he read from them aloud, showed them around like items from a choice and precious collection.

  Hannah Arendt

  Notebook, Reading, Choices

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• Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People

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• Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes art into an article for use, for arrangement into a mental scheme of categories.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Criticism, Dubious

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Shoes, Height

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• Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Children, Rights, Shopping

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• If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to what other people are wearing, it's dumb.

  Andy Rooney

  Hurt, Ideas, People

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• The fact of the matter is that poor men do not often steal, and when they do, it is petty theft, something to eat or perhaps an item of clothing to keep them from the cold. Thieves are usually those who have something and want more.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Thieves, Want

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.19, Bantam

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• Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.

  Jay McInerney

  Thinking, Pages, Six

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