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		This is what rhyme does. In a couplet, the first rhyme is like a question to which the second rhyme is an answer. The first rhyme leaves something in the air, some unanswered business. In most quatrains, space is created between the rhyme that poses the question and the rhyme that gives the answer - it is like a pleasure deferred.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				James Fenton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		If there's a party and they won't let my friends in, I'd leave. No question. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zac Efron 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Warren Ellis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zig Ziglar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Business is tough; you need tough guys. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carlos Ghosn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harry Caray 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bart Stupak 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gabriel Iglesias 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karen DeCrow 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What we'd like to think of YouTube as is a part of Google with very overlapping goals and values. We're a fundamental part of the advertising business for Google. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Salar Kamangar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Victor Pinchuk 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tadashi Yanai 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Boyle Roche 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kim Stanley Robinson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The stuff we did under the name the Rentals got so chaotic. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				William S. Burroughs 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Francis Bacon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		This is what rhyme does. In a couplet, the first rhyme is like a question to which the second rhyme is an answer. The first rhyme leaves something in the air, some unanswered business. In most quatrains, space is created between the rhyme that poses the question and the rhyme that gives the answer - it is like a pleasure deferred. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				James Fenton