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Ventriloquism today is in a slump.


Paul Winchell
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Any email that contains the words 'important' or 'urgent' never are, and annoy me to the point of not replying out of principle.
Markus Persson
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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
John D. Rockefeller
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Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.


Laurence J. Peter
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A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
Christopher Lasch
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We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
Aldo Leopold
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It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.


Eddie Mathews
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Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.


Richie Ashburn
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I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did one on Napoleon, 50,000 words - enjoyed doing that. He was a baddie. I did one on Churchill, which was a bestseller in New York, I'm glad to say. 50,000 words. He was a goodie.
Paul Johnson
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That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.
Saint Patrick
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There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.


Mary Martin
I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.
Gary Jennings
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The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and women never lose that superiority in verbal ability.
Helen Fisher
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Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.


Ninon de L'Enclos
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In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V, which relied on a chorus to explain in words the battles of Harfleur and Agincourt that could never be captured on the Elizabethan stage.
Ian Doescher
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The fact that you can crawl the web is a commodity.


Carol Bartz
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The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.
Jim Rogers
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I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.
David James Elliott
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Eating words has never given me indigestion.


Winston Churchill
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