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  • This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought
Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land
Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.

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  • Bert Lance Country banks are more flexible in their lending policies than their city brethren are.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Bert Lance All these years, they've been giving lip service to saying that we are a party that is inclusive instead of exclusive. We've said the Democratic Party has a great big umbrella, and everybody can be comfortable under that umbrella. If they didn't mean it, then it ought to be pulled apart.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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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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  • Bert Lance Folks are serious about three things: Their religion, their family and, most of all, their money.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Bert Lance I've always believed that if you had a fellow who works 150 percent of the time, he's going to beat a fellow who works something less than that.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Bert Lance I've always tried to set some kind of goal. I want to be better than anybody in the banking business, and when I ran the Highway Department in Georgia, I wanted it to be the best in the country. And of course, I have a high sense of public service.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Bert Lance If the house is on fire, and the fireman shows up, you don't question his color or credentials. You don't send him back to the firehouse and say, 'Send somebody else.'
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Bert Lance If you have a situation where you need help, it doesn't make any difference where it comes from.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Bert Lance In politics, they don't want anything that deters whatever their goal is. When people get in the way of that, that's when people get hurt - and sometimes destroyed.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Bert Lance In politics, you have to understand that there are some cases where you'll never be able to get votes.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Bert Lance Jesse Jackson is not anti-Semitic, but in politics, you always get in trouble when you try to be cute.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Lance Morrow Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
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  • Bert Lance Some people just decide they won't vote for you, but it doesn't have to be all negative.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Robert Benchley The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Caleb Cushing The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Bert Lance The press aren't willing to wait for whatever the truth is - the truth never catches up with the lie... Destroying people ought not to be a competitive business.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Aristophanes This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought
    Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land
    Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Hippocrates What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
    Hippocrates
    Greek physician (460 - 377)
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