Quotes with cut-throat

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  • Bill Haywood The bandage will remain on the eyes of Justice as long as the Capitalist has the cut, shuffle, and deal.
    Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, page 146.
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  • Thomas Carlyle The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bill Buford The first sign that I'd been unknowingly affected by cooking shows occurred on a Sunday morning when I realized I was talking to myself. I'd been making toast. 'First, we cut our bread,' I whispered. 'Do you know why?' I stopped what I was doing and looked up. 'Let me tell you why.'
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Gamal Abdel Nasser The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.
    Gamal Abdel Nasser
    Egyptian president and general (1918 - 1970)
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  • Bob Seger The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer... I don't know why that started... The way I sing, probably.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Bob Barr The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Margaret Mead The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Benny Hill The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
    Benny Hill
    English comedian, actor and singer (1924 - 1992)
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  • Dave Barry The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Charles Buxton The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
    Charles Buxton
    British writer (1823 - 1871)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bob Woodward The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.... The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a d
    Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 April 1864
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Brooks Atkinson There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each other's throat.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water shortages. But this doesn't mean the best way to solve them is to cut carbon emissions.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Robert Frost There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man - fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Boyd Holbrook There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I didn't even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn't even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate.
    Boyd Holbrook
    American actor and model
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  • Bruce Babbitt There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Brenda Ueland These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget. But they have no slow, big ideas.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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