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• If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.

  Winston Churchill

  Writing, Sacrifice, Men

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• I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.

  Paul McCartney

  Writing, Voice, Lost

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• I think the beauty industry is a stepping stone in terms of pageants that will give you a launching pad to be seen. For people to understand who you are and what you stand for... I think it teaches self esteem and self worth. And it also encourages you to have a more philanthropic viewpoint of the world.

  Kenya Moore

  Self Esteem, Self Worth, Thinking

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• Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At a time when scientists tell us we need to reduce carbon pollution to prevent catastrophic climate change, it is absurd to provide massive subsidies that pad fossil-fuel companies' already enormous profits.

  Bernie Sanders

  Oil, Climate, Needs

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• We are pretty sure that we and our pets share the same reality, until one day we come home to find that our wistful, intelligent friend who reminds us of our better self has decided a good way to spend the day is to open a box of Brillo pads, unravel a few, distribute some throughout the house, and eat or wear all the rest. And we shake our heads in an inability to comprehend what went wrong here.

  Merrill Markoe

  Dog, Home, Intelligent

  Merrill Markoe (1992). “What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned”, Viking Press

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• The sari's radiance, vigor and variety, produced by a single straight length of cloth, should give us in the West pause and make us think twice about the zipper, the dart and the shoulder pad.

  Naveen Patnaik

  Thinking, Zippers, Giving

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• Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long.

  David Baldacci

  Life, Essence, Long

  David Baldacci (2002). “The Winner”, p.473, Hachette UK

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• Uh... what can I say? Made money. Given a launch pad for a working life. Set a precedent I had no interest in following. Created expectations that I was not cut-out to match. Disappointed virtually all of my readers subsequently. But I like what I've done, and I stand by it all.

  Alex Garland

  Cutting, Expectations, Done

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• A secretary is not a thing Wound by key, pulled by string. Her pad is to write in, And not spend the night in, If that's what you plan to enjoy.

  Frank Loesser

  Writing, Night, Keys

  Frank Loesser (2003). “The Complete Lyrics of Frank Loesser”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Just imagine: I, a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I came here to this city, I was given a plan - a program of what I was to be shown and whom I was to meet here. But just now, I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked, 'Why not?' What is it, do you have rocket-launching pads there? I do not know

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Cities, Rockets, Why Not

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• #3 pencils and quadrille pads.

  Seymour Cray

  Funny, Witty, Pencils

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• Obviously, Sam is the type of guy that hides behind his pen and pad. I promise you he wouldn't say that to my face in a dark alley where it's just me and him and no witnesses.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Dark, Media, Nba

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• For any budding cricketers listening, do you have any superstitious routines before an innings, like putting one pad on first and then the other one?

  Tony Lewis

  Listening, Firsts, Superstitious

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• We like it to be realistic but not real, but I wear something I call the 'vag pad,' it's kind of a little triangular panty liner that you stick to you.

  Emmy Rossum

  Real, Littles, Sticks

  "Emmy Rossum Explains Sex Scenes On ‘Chelsea Lately’". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2011.

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• A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris or the poet's pad in Greenwich Village, the artist must have some kind of order or he will proudce a very small body of work. To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Hard Work, Paris

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.138, Convergent Books

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• I asked you to pack your headgear and shoulder pads, but more importantly your defense and your kicking game, because that's what wins game like this.

  Lou Holtz

  Winning, Games, Nfl

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• There are only two secrets to a slimmer shape ... High heels and shoulder pads!

  Cathy Guisewite

  High Heels, Two, Secret

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• When my shoes are killing me, I take a maxi pad and put it in the bottom of my shoe. It is better than any Dr. Scholl's insert. That fashion tip has saved me through some long nights.

  Hoda Kotb

  Fashion, Night, Shoes

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• Only a dreamer or a fool would pick a stock at random and expect it to take off like a space ship from its launching pad. Certainly this has happened - about as often as a dime-store clerk has become a Hollywood star or a boy born in a log cabin has been elected President of the United States - just often enough, that is, to keep alive the Great American Dream.

  Catherine Crook de Camp

  Dream, Stars, Boys

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• We dont want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.

  John R. Allen

  Roots, Want, Als

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• If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see. Get so you can draw anything and it looks like what it's supposed to be. It's a lot of work, but if you really have it in you, it's not like work. It becomes fun.

  Stan Lee

  Fun, Artist, Looks

  "A Chat With Stan Lee, `Godfather' Of Marvel Comics". Interview with Chip & Jonathan Carter, January 19, 1996.

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• Everyone has the same amount of time, and hard work is simply hard work. As a result, what you do in the time you work determines what you achieve. And since what you do is determined by what you think, how big you think becomes the launching pad for how high you achieve.

  Gary W. Keller

  Hard Work, Thinking, Determined

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• Social change isn't something you should do just to help pad a resume. Follow your passion.

  Nancy Lublin

  Passion, Helping, Social

  "Do College Admissions Officers Care About Community Service?" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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• The Eee Pad Transformer Prime is a category-defining product. Powered by Tegra 3, it launches us into a new era of mobile computing, in which quad-core performance and super energy-efficiency provide capabilities never available before. With Transformer Prime, ASUS has once again led the industry into the next generation.

  Jen-Hsun Huang

  Eras, Next, Defining

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• Babbitt as a book was planless; its end arrived apparently because its author had come to the end of the writing-pad, or rather, one might suspect from its length, to the end of all writing-pads then on the market.

  Rebecca West

  Book, Writing, Might

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.169, Open Road Media

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