Collecting Quotes

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  Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Presidential, Liberty, Taxation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Men, Offering

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.677, Penguin

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• I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.

  Julie Andrews

  Lovely, Ceramics, Would Be

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• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Mistake, Struggle

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.

  Harlan Howard

  Emotion

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• Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.

  Ursula Andress

  Giving, Joy, Satisfaction

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• All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Witty, Humorous, Science

  Quoted in J. B. Birks, Rutherford at Manchester (1962)

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• Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual.

  Sue Kelly

  Jobs, Corny, Small Business

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• Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia.

  Trevor Dunn

  Obsession, Obsessed, Platypus

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• Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.

  Bobby Jindal

  Oysters, Risk, Louisiana

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• My friends and I are collecting prom dresses to give to girls who can't afford them for their proms.

  Lauren Bush

  Girl, Giving, Dresses

  "My Uncle George" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2001.

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• I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Healing, Ideas

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.

  Scott Putesky

  Guitar, Nine

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• There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.

  Klaus Fuchs

  Sight, Names, People

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• Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Night, Gone

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• Success is not a process of accumulating wealth, building mass relationship or collecting things in excess, but developing, excelling, fostering and growing the happiness for self and others without recess to treat it as the life's progress.

  Anuj

  Self, Collecting Things, Progress

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• We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.

  Cofer Black

  Safe Haven, Operations, Terrorist

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• Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.

  Mackenzie Crook

  Stars, War, Kids

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• We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits.

  Chris Chocola

  People, Benefits, Able

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• The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.

  Adam Rickitt

  Keys, Numbers, Email

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• I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

  Ville Valo

  Book, Cds, Records

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• In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

  Lord Kelvin

  Science, Physics, Stamp Collecting

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• A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it.

  Neil Abercrombie

  Airports, Land, States

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• Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Too Much, Way, Extravagance

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• One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Jobs, Children, Dad

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