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• Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

  Quentin Crisp

  Inspirational, Vices, Green

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• Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry - not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger.

  Tom Colicchio

  School, Lunch, Issues

  "Colicchio of Top Chef fights hunger" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. February 28, 2013.

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• When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.

  Leonard Cohen

  Glasses, Feet, Relaxation

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• In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.

  Michael Caine

  Fame, Flatmates, Restaurants

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• In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds ... that each of them is built up of molecules of the same kinds we find on earth. A molecule of hydrogen, for example, whether in Sirius or in Arcturus, executes its vibrations in precisely the same time. Each molecule therefore throughout the universe bears impressed upon it the stamp of a metric system as distinctly as does the metre of the Archives at Paris, or the royal cubit of the Temple of Karnac.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Stars, Science, Light

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• Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp.

  Milton Friedman

  Exercise, Men, Hands

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.2, University of Chicago Press

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• I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Land, Constitution Of The United States, Sacred

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Yes you're getting your tattoo." I threw my arms around Dad's neck. "Thank you!" "Hey," Mom said. "I'm the one who had to persuade him it wasn't turning his little girl into a streetwalker." "I never said that," Dad said. "No?" I said. "Cool. Cause I've decided to skip the paw print. I'm thinking of a tramp stamp with flames that says 'Hot in Here.' No wait. Arrows. For directionally challenged guys

  Kelley Armstrong

  Tattoo, Girl, Mom

  Kelley Armstrong (2014). “Darkness Rising: Complete Trilogy Collection: The Gathering, The Calling, The Rising”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Born, Pundits, Where You Are

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• I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

  Dick Gregory

  Kings, Men, Thinking

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• Alongside my "no email" policy, I resolve to make better use of the wonderful Royal Mail, and send letters and postcards to people. There is a huge pleasure in writing a letter, putting it in an envelope and sticking the stamp on it. And huge pleasure in receiving real letters, too.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Real, Writing, People

  "Why I decided to pull the plug on email" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2007.

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• I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

  Sally Ride

  Running, Hiking, Space

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• Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.

  Christine Pelosi

  Oil, Presidential, Shelter

  "Ryan Roadmap STILL a Roadmap to Ruin for Social Security" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2012.

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• What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Birthday, Time

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 2, st. 98

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• Surely the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional, unique, about the present event, which the previous, or the coming do not have. There is livingness about it, an actuality; it stands out as if illumined. There is the "stamp of reality" on the actual, which the past and future do not have.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspirational, Memories, Unique

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• They advertise on the radio for food stamps!

  Bill O'Reilly

  Radio, Food Stamps

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• War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

  Benito Mussolini

  Military, War, Fighting

  Encyclopedia Italiana "The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism" (1932)

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• I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.

  Emily Mortimer

  Dad, Spring, Home

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

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• Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Diversity, Bears

  Essais bk. 3, ch. 2 (1580)

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• At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria used two stamps with which he marked the books. One said: 'Does not agree with the Koran - heretic, must be burned'. The other said: 'Agrees with the Koran - superfluous, must be burned'.

  Nils Kjaer

  Book, Two, Egypt

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• In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Men, Letters, Politics

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• I can't give money away to buy listeners. I can't pay listeners off with phones or food stamps or anything. I can't come by my audience by buying it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Phones, Giving, Pay

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• Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse.

  Anne Lamott

  Sweet, Stars, Thinking

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• Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Fall, Color

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• The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Mind, Genius

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

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