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Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
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Power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing system - is critical.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.
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Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.
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Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.
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Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
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Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
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Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.
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Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.
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Quite minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
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Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.
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