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• The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

  George H. W. Bush

  People, Pork, Defense

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• Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number of methods. My own group of men are prospecting in a different field, using every possible scientific means. We believe there are still things left to be discovered. We have only stumbled upon a few barrels of physical laws from the great pool of knowledge. Some day we are going to hit a gusher.

  Charles Kettering

  Believe, Knowledge, Mean

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• A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Ignorance, Science, Ignorant

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• The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the guns and dogs of the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted idea of manhood coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding nonviolence.

  Jesse Jackson

  Dog, Fighting, Gun

  Interview with Arthur Kretchmer, www.playboy.com. October 14, 2011.

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• A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Self, Pieces

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.

  Stan Musial

  Running, Home, Swings

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• A green, Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| replica watches|renewable energy economy isn't some pie-in-the-sky, far-off future - it is now. It is creating jobs - now. It is providing cheap alternatives to $140-per-barrel oil - now. And it can create millions of additional jobs, an entire new industry, if we act - now.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Pie, Creating

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• We think we're near energy independence - nothing could be further from the truth. We're in much better shape now, but the price of a barrel of oil is going to be controlled by the Middle East for the next 10, 20, 30 years for sure.

  Michael Mullen

  Thinking, Years, Oil

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• We thought everybody knew by now that barrel length has almost nothing to do with accuracy. I believe the myth of the superior accuracy of a long rifle dates from colonial days, when the only way to extend sight radius was to make the barrel as long as possible. It is interesting how long it takes a myth to die.

  Jeff Cooper

  Believe, Gun, Sight

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• Don't bail; the best pieces of gold are at the bottom of the barrel of crap.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspiring, Bottom Of The Barrel, Inspire

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• Conservatives in general, and even so called Tea Party conservatives, are not against transportation spending. Indeed, interstate commerce is one purpose of interstate highways and byways, and is one of the things the federal government is actually supposed to spend our tax dollars on. What conservatives are opposed to is needless and excessive spending, pork-barrel spending, deficit spending, spending to pick winners and losers among American individuals and corporations, and spending to promote the social and economic whims of the Washington few.

  Barry Loudermilk

  Party, Government, Tea

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• If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country’s oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week.  That's not gallons, but barrels.  Small changes in buying habits can make big differences.  Becoming a less energy-dependent nation may just need to start with a good breakfast.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Country, Small Changes, Oil

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fear, Men, Evil

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• All you need is a double barrel

  Joe Biden

  Needs

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• ...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.

  Andrew Sullivan

  President, Politics, Sids

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• Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Missing, Shooting, Fishes

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.66, BookBaby

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• Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrel and just as empty!

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Gun, Doctrine, Christianity

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• The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.

  Robert Fabyan

  Wine, Towers, Dukes

  'The New Chronicles of England and France' pt. 2 (1477); early editions have the spelling malvesye

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• There is a line from Dante that says, "The arrow seen before cometh less rudely." President John F. Kennedy put one aspect of the same thought into one of his state of the union messages this way: "The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." The Boy Scouts say it best of all: "Be prepared." That isn't just cracker-barrel wisdom with us; it is theology. "If ye are prepared ye shall not fear." (D&C 38:30)

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Time, Fear, Boys

  Jeffrey R. Holland (1985). “However Long and Hard the Road”, Deseret Book Co

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• Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas onshore and offshore. And it seems to be only the Republicans who understand that companies should be competing for the right to tap those resources, and get that energy source flowing into these hungry markets so that we will be less reliant on foreign sources of energy. In a volatile world, relying on foreign regimes that are not friendly to Americans, asking them to ramp up resource production for our benefit, that's nonsensical.

  Sarah Palin

  Oil, Feet, Alaska

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• All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Gun, People, Political

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Gun, Differences, Interesting

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.20, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax - in the cross.

  D. A. Carson

  Moving, Wrath, Covenant

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• Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.

  Richard Russo

  Feelings, Crabs, Climbs

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Sep 02, 2012

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• "More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of monkeys would be, especially once released from the barrel?

  Tom Shales

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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