Tom Lehrer Quotes
I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear.
Tom Lehrer
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
Dan Quayle
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I had a 100 percent voting record with the NRA, but I don't believe in bazookas in our schools.
Victor Mitchell
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
Barbara Tuchman
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Pope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a air quotes 'Genocidal Fuckhead … air quotes again with bunny rabbit ears'. But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as 'Pope Gutless Bastard I.'
Eddie Izzard
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Growth isn't central at all, because I'm trying to run this company as if it's going to be here a hundred years from now. And if you take where we are today and add 15% growth, like public companies need to have for their stock to stay up in value, I'd be a multi-trillion-dollar company in 40 years. Which is impossible, of course.
Yvon Chouinard
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What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.
Walter de La Mare
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You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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People want to make sure there is flexibility to reallocate assets. They are trusting us to make the asset allocation decisions.
Michael Hintze
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Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.
Oscar Wilde
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If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?
Nathan Myhrvold
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Antisthenes
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I've spent most of my life in cities, and so I've always lived with the curiosity about what makes for city cultures and how peoples live in cities, how peoples anywhere manage to co-exist, the public life and the private life.
W. S. Di Piero
