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Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
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But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators, the instruments, not the guides of the people.
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) -
Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
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He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
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Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
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I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.
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I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
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Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
Address, Faneuil Hall, Boston (18 April 1859) -
It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.
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It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.
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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
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One has occasionally to pocket one’s pride and readjust one’s ideas.
Death in the Clouds (1935) ch. 25 -
One of the greatest problems for international journalists covering the Middle East is that people who serves as guides for journalists are often affiliated with Islamic terrorists seeking to turn for foreign visitors against Israel.
Reprinted in Live from NYs 92nd Street Y continues. Vail Daily. October 7, 2007. -
President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.
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