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• I am designating a new Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers to cut through red tape and ensure that the full resources of our federal government are leveraged to assist the workers, communities, and regions that rely on our auto industry.

  Barack Obama

  Recovery, Government, Community

  "Obama Announces GM, Chrysler Restructuring Plan (FULL TEXT)", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2009.

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• Quality. That's the first word, the one word that comes to mind when I think of the books published by Abrams. In a world where so many companies are willing to cut corners, to do things the easy way in order to enhance the bottom line, it's gratifying to know that there's one company that obviously takes such pride in its finished product, one company that can always be counted on to design and produce a book that is, itself, as much a work of art as the illustrations on its pages.

  Stan Lee

  Art, Book, Pride

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• Were not cutting the budget simply for the sake of sounder financial management.  This is only a first step toward returning power to the states and communities, only a first step toward reordering the relationship between citizen and government.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Community, Citizens

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• I mean when was the last time we had one of these contract signings... that didn't end... in some sort of horrible physical calamity? So if you wanna cut to the chase, you know, we can flip the table over, we can all start beating each other up or we can at least make this entertaining.

  CM Punk

  Mean, Tables, Lasts

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• Hold, or cut bowstrings.

  William Shakespeare

  Action

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 2, l. [115]

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• My mouth blooms like a cut.

  Anne Sexton

  Kissing, Mouths

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Any Democrat who squirms on the tax-cut issue in the primaries has no chance ' zero ' to win the nomination. Each will have to take the “pledge” to oppose the Bush tax cuts. Thus, Bush will have succeeded in creating a situation where anyone who can win the nomination can't win the election. Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

  Dick Morris

  Zero, Winning, Creating

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• Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen arms to the light,--to see its perfect success; but most are content to behold it in the shape of many broad boards brought to market, and deem that its true success! But the pine is no more lumber than man is, and to be made into boards and houses is no more its true and highest use than the truest use of a man is to be cut down and made into manure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Men, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.71, Trajectory Inc

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• Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.

  Mason Cooley

  Spring, Arrogance, Rope

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• When I won the Derby on Never Say Die I went home and cut the lawn. I haven't cut the lawn since.

  Lester Piggott

  Home, Lawns, Havens

  2004 In the Observer, 30May.

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• The stone in quarries is found to be of different and unlike qualities. In some it is soft, in others it is medium, in still others it is hard as in lava quarries. There are also numerous other kinds: for instance, in Campania, red and black tufas; in Umbria, Picenum, and Venetia, white tufa which can be cut with a toothed saw like wood.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Umbria, White, Black

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter VII, Section 1,

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• In felling a tree we should cut into the trunk of it to the very heart, and then leave it standing so that the sap may drain out drop by drop throughout the whole of it... Then and not till then, the tree being drained dry and the sap no longer dripping, let it be felled and it will be in the highest state of usefulness.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Heart, Tree, Sap

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book II, Chapter IX, Section 3), circa 15 BC.

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• I think sometimes fate cuts you a break. Like it says, okay, you've had enough of that crap, so it's time you fell into something nice. See what you make out of it.

  Nora Roberts

  Nice, Fate, Thinking

  "Interlude In Death". Book by Nora Roberts, August 2001.

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• My cut is blunt and futuristic, and Nicki Minaj started wearing that bob on her head after she came to my show, so at the end of the day, I know what I do, and I know what I possess, and I know who I am. I'm a trendsetter. The biggest form of flattery is imitation, so I'm flattered.

  Lil' Mama

  Who I Am, The End Of The Day, Bob

  "Lil Mama On Her Style Evolution; Nicki Minaj & Being A Curse-Free Rapper". Interview with Tray Hova, www.vibe.com. June 15, 2011.

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• I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all earthly ties and isolating me as it were.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Success, Ties, Achievement

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• For millennia the two-million acre redwood ecosystem thrived and sheltered myriad species of life. In the last 150 years, 97 percent of the original redwood forests have been destroyed by timber corporations. ... Big business cut-and-run logging operations have instilled a false dichotomy: jobs versus the environment.

  Julia Hill

  Running, Jobs, Ecosystems

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• When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Government, Tree, Wish

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• The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Equality, Circles, Lines

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• Every man at time of Death,
  Would fain set forth some saying that may live
  After his death and better humankind;
  For death gives life's last word a power to live,
  And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain
  After the vanished voice, and speak to men.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Lying, Men

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1875). “Queen Mary. A Drama”, p.204

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• Under current law, on January 1, 2013, there's going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.

  Ben Bernanke

  Law, Important, Cliffs

  "Highlights: Bernanke's Q&A testimony to House panel". Ben Bernanke's remarks during the House Committee on Financial Services hearing at Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., www.reuters.com. February 29, 2012.

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• The problem isn't a Congress that won't cut spending or a president who won't raise taxes. The problem is an American public with a bottomless sense of entitlement to federal money.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  President, Problem, Entitlement

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.104, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at least) seven thousand years and over miles of land cutting across national boundaries and vast expanses of sea. Yet it is vital to do just that to fully comprehend the longevity as well as the widespread power and influence this religion once held.

  Merlin Stone

  Women, Years, Sea

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• When you start cutting government expenditure, at some point you are cutting essential services rather than excessive services. So you have to take into account the social costs involved in cutting government spending.

  Raghuram Rajan

  Government, Cost, Essentials

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• Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more foolish people, who, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains. And there are wise people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Wise, Pain, Knives

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.23

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• Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.

  Elsie Clews Parsons

  Educational, Excellence, Progress

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