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ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
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ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
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PAT ROBERTSON I picked ducks in a tub in my dorm room. I'd hang deer in the doorway between the bedroom and th...
PHIL ROBERTSON I eat like no other; it drives everyone crazy. I eat donuts three times a day, and I probably go thr...
BRITT ROBERTSON I love my squirrel and dumplings, but you can make it with chicken and dumplings. I love making the ...
KAY ROBERTSON Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanki...
PHIL ROBERTSON The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
ROBERTSON DAVIES Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite fran...
PAT ROBERTSON The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone...
PAT ROBERTSON Si's beard is really awkward. One side is longer than the other, and it's about three differ...
WILLIE ROBERTSON I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississi...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON As a kid, I would always shop for my back-to-school clothes at department stores. I lived in a small...
BRITT ROBERTSON Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a y...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb
ROBERTSON DAVIES A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
ROBERTSON DAVIES You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
ROBERTSON DAVIES I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the ideal...
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