Quotes with heads-or-tails

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  • Arthur Laffer Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy - let's imagine we have two farms, and that's the whole world, just two farms. If one of those farmers gets unemployment benefits, who do you think pays for him? Am I going way over your heads today?
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Abbie Hoffman A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
    Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980)
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Carl Sandburg And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Lance Morrow As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.
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  • Caleb Cushing Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Bruce Feirstein Bond is a classic archetype character, a character that's embedded in our heads forever, one of a lone warrior setting out to avenge a nation - and you find that character across cultures.
    Bruce Feirstein
    American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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  • Clarence Darrow Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • William Carlos Williams Empty pockets make empty heads.
    William Carlos Williams
    American poet (1883 - 1963)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Margaret Mitchell Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.
    Margaret Mitchell
    American writer (1900 - 1949)
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  • Virginia Woolf For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • E. M. Cioran Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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