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• I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don't blow it.

  Helen Thomas

  Blow, Thinking, President

  "Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House" by Ray Richmond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 14, 2008.

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• It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

  Harry S. Truman

  Political, Politics, Tricks

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• I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

  Ted Turner

  Happiness, Tombstone, Action

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• The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

  Alice Walker

  Money, Men, White

  The Color Purple (1982)

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• One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Jobs, Smell

  "JACK WELCH: 'If You Have A Reputation As A Big, Stiff Bureaucracy, You're Stuck'" by Kim Bhasin, www.businessinsider.com. February 27, 2012.

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• What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

  Edith Wharton

  People, Use, Noses

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2113, Delphi Classics

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• I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.

  Ron White

  Cuban Cigars, Lasts, Collections

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• You know, my first album, some of those jokes I'd done for twelve years because I couldn't throw 'em out.

  Ron White

  Years, Twelve, Albums

  Interview with Guy MacPherson, www.guymacpherson.ca. October 24, 2006.

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• How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.

  Shel Silverstein

  Love, Friendship, Inspiring

  Shel Silverstein, “How Many, How Much”

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• I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures.

  Gary Snyder

  Girl, Children, Writing

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• In the night, I hear 'em talk. Coldest story ever told. Somewhere far along this road he lost his soul.

  Kanye West

  Night, Soul, Stories

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• But what the evil people do, that's their responsibility. The burden they have to carry. Sure, when we see 'em starting on causing some hurt, we've got to try and stop 'em, but mostly what the rest of us should be concerning ourselves with is doing right by others. Every time you do a good turn, you shine the light a little further into the dark. And the thing is, even when we're gone, that light's going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.

  Charles de Lint

  Hurt, Responsibility, Dark

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• The Lower City is MINE, Its People are MINE. If I Find Them That's Doing All This Kidnapping And Murdering, They'd Best Pray For Mercy, Because Once I Get My Teeth In 'Em I Will NEVER Let Them Go.

  Tamora Pierce

  Cities, People, Teeth

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.84, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy fighting spirit.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Jobs, Fighting, Skills

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.265, Penguin

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• Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em.

  John Steinbeck

  Trouble, Mice

  John Steinbeck (2010). “Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down”, p.21, Penguin

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• Give it to 'em!" Take 'em down!" First Aleran!" Kick their furry--" Assault formation!

  Jim Butcher

  Giving, Firsts, Assault

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• Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.

  Ray Bradbury

  Friday, Monday, Ashes

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Doesn't matter who it is I'll friggin break 'em -Grimmjow jaggerjaques

  Tite Kubo

  Bleach, Matter, Break

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• Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O what shall we do with the funny little things? Roast 'em alive, or stew them in a pot; fry them, boil them and eat them hot?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wings, Bird, Hot

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Burn, burn tree and fern! Shrivel and scorch! A fizzling torch To light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Bake and toast ‘em, fry and roast ‘em! till beards blaze, and eyes glaze; till hair smells and skins crack, fat melts, and bones black in cinders lie beneath the sky! So dwarves shall die, and light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Ya-harri-hey! Ya hoy!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, Eye, Night

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You need teeth like mine!" Grandma said. "You can just mail 'em to the dentist!

  Janet Evanovich

  Grandma, Teeth, Needs

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• It was a lot easier when we could just brand'em," Ben said. "Then everybody'd know not to mess with our womenfolk.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Easier, Said, Mess

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Manhunting”, p.213, HQN Books

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• I took off my glasses while you were yelling at me once more than once so as not to see you see me react. Should've put 'em, should've put 'em on again so I could see you see me sincerely yelling back.

  Fiona Apple

  Glasses, Yelling, Should

  Song: Parting Gift, Album: Extraordinary Machine, 2005

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• People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things.

  Cormac McCarthy

  People, Complaining, Done

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• Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG!

  Mercedes Lackey

  Names, Long, Giving

  Mercedes Lackey (1988). “The Oathbound”, p.56, Penguin

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