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• We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.

  John Spratt

  Moving, High Heels, Years

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• Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state's economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more good jobs in West Virginia this system must be fixed and it must be fixed now. We cannot afford to wait even one more minute.

  Joe Manchin

  Jobs, Believe, High Heels

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• All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.

  Bryan Ferry

  Girl, Rapper, High Heels

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• First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck.

  A. I. Bezzerides

  High Heels, Littles, Firsts

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• Putting facts by the thousands, into the world, the toes take off with an appealing squeak which the thumping heel follows confidentially, the way men greet men. Sometimes walking is just such elated pumping.

  Lyn Hejinian

  Men, Journey, Hiking

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• The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain dolls from China,which have made men and women weepfor centuries, even those have changed now.What used to be pain is a lovely benchwhere we can rest under the roses.A left hand has become a right.A dark wall, a window.A cushion in a shoe heel,the leader of the community!Now silence. What we sayis poison to someand nourishing to others.What we say is a ripe fig,but not every bird that flieseats figs.

  Rumi

  Love, Pain, Wall

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• The American humorist sat on his couch suffering thoughts of her, trying to figure out how to win back her affections, wondering what had happened between them or just tumbling head-over-heels down into romantic oblivion where the image of a remembered kiss provokes bottomless despair and makes death seem like the right idea.He experienced the basics of love ended.

  Richard Brautigan

  Love, Kissing, Winning

  Richard Brautigan (1976). “Sombrero Fallout”, Simon & Schuster

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• The principal reason, invariably, most "successful" giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact, the worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday's turf.

  Tom Peters

  Change, Successful, Yesterday

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• The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds.

  Louis Aragon

  Bird, Nocturnal, Sides

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• It's so tiring. Even though I've worn heels and performed the choreography for four years now, I'm still not used to it. When will I be used to it? In 10 years? In 20 years?

  Kim Hyo-yeon

  Years, Snsd, Four

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• Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Spinning, Crash

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• All young people want to kick up their heels and defy convention; most of them would prefer to do it at a not too heavy cost.

  Elmer Davis

  People, Cost, Want

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• It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Strong, Military, War

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• So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into the shop. What! no soap? So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.

  Samuel Foote

  Humorous, Cutting, Garden

  Quoted in Maria Edgeworth, Harry and Lucy (1825).

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• The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast, well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Lying, Successful

  Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.46

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• I like to wear platform heels onstage and they're actually hard to find. But fans started putting money in them - so now they are filled with tons of bills. It's pretty amazing.

  Taylor Momsen

  Fans, Bills, Platforms

  "Dirty Pretty Thing: Taylor Momsen". Interview with Colleen Nika, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2010.

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• Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.

  Derrick Jensen

  Dog, Desert, Forests

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• I may not have the stereotypical head for business, but I have feet that were made for heels.

  Tamara Mellon

  Feet, May, Made

  "In step with what women want" by Oliver Marre, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2007.

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• I feel fortunate that I've had a lot of songs recorded by other people, because I take my songwriting very seriously. It's only those people that have followed me over the years and really know my work that know how serious I am about all of it - including the way I look. You can't take my high heels from me, you can't have my long fingernails, you can't take all this hair from me, because it's part of this thing that I've become. I wouldn't want to give any of it up. Do I have to be ugly to be a songwriter? This is the way I am, and it's what I choose to be.

  Dolly Parton

  Music, Song, Hair

  "You need to shine if you're going to be a star" by Paul Sexton, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2006.

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• I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Crush, Hero, Marching On

  Julia Ward Howe (1866). “Later Lyrics”, p.42

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• Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

  Barbara Tuchman

  War, Jackals

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.389, Random House

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• Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.

  Samuel Smiles

  Effort, Done, Sometimes

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.67

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• A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Good Man, May

  1605-6 Kent. King Lear, act 2, sc.2, l.148.

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• There are two ways of doing battle against Disgrace. You may live it down; or you may run away from it and hide. The first method is heart-breaking, but sure. The second cannot be relied upon because of the uncomfortable way Disgrace has of turning up at your heels.

  Edna Ferber

  Running, Heart, Two

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Buttered Side Down”, p.12, Booklassic

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• During that Grammy moment, when I nearly collapsed, I was thinking, Are you kidding me? I've always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant, I could perform in heels. Note to self: Never wear a train onstage.

  Christina Aguilera

  Thinking, Self, Moments

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