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• We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • High
  • Energy
  • Cost

• Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Why
  • Poetry
  • Away

• Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Progress
  • Taxes

• It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Dance

• It's about very talented writers, directors, producers, and actors being in a position for their projects to be supported, but there's just not enough black projects being made.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Black
  • Enough
  • Made

• Every Westerner is jubilating that the Berlin Wall has fallen. Something worst than the Berlin Wall is in Palestine; and nobody is talking about it.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Wall
  • Talking
  • Worst

• It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Important
  • Age
  • Senior

• Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Image
  • Interests
  • Protecting

• I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Feel
  • Actress
  • I Feel

• There's a fun, nostalgic aspect to Legos - people connect to the art on a different level. But it's also a medium that lets me design anything I can imagine. I especially enjoy creating curvy forms using rectangular pieces. Up close, you notice the sharp angles, but when you back away, the corners blend into curves.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs - sweeping floors, laying tile. I also had paper routes.

  

  S. Robson Walton
  • Remember
  • Dad
  • Moving

• Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Everything
  • Greed
  • Destroys

• It is good to be a cynic-it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world-we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death-the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Good
  • Death

• Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!With baskets.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Different
  • Game
  • Past

• The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Disease
  • Here
  • Syndrome

• It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Confidence

• Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One (1748), as quoted by Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter II: The Spirit of Capitalism, 1905. 12, 3

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Advice

• The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Purpose
  • Tree
  • Spring

• Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words--" "You mean you have other words?" cried the bird happily. "Well, by all means, use them. You're certainly not doing very well with the ones you have now.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Mean
  • Effort
  • Bird

• This administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.

  

  Ralph Nader

• One pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Heart
  • Woman
  • Lips

• It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Why
  • Play
  • Myself

• Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.

  

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