Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.


Bernard M. Baruch

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Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
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Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
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Vote for the man who promises least--he'll be the least disappointing.
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Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
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Two things are bad for the heart-running up stairs and running down people. -Bernard M. Baruch.
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To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. -Bernard Baruch.
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He that promises most will perform least.
GAELIC PROVERB
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
ROBERT BYRNE
Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.
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The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
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disappointing to say the least ... but not surprising because it is a first year.
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The richest man is not he who has the most but he who needs the least.
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Those who have loved God most, have loved man least
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This way at least everybody can get it,
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He is the least in want who is the least covetous.
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I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.
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the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on...
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring.
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Lucky nation is the one who has at least one great progressive revolutionary man in its history!
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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
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Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least.
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Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least
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He who mistrusts most should be trusted least
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Don’t trust any man who surrounds himself with beautiful women. Least of all a priest.
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Never vote for a candidate whose campaign promises include ‘doing more for children.
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Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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I'm normally the least busy person I know.
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I'm the least sexy person in real life.
DREE HEMINGWAY
We have at least 35 moulds in the pipeline.
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At least become familiar with it -- know it's there.
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At least we got the nest out of there.
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He has the most who is most content with the least
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At least that's a target.
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It's the least we could do for these guys.
DAVE REED
Go at least once a year to a place you have never been before
DALAI LAMA
At the very least it was insensitive.
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At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say.
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She preyed on the people who could least afford to be preyed upon.
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Be friendly to everyone. Those who deserve it the least need it the most.
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ERIC SWENSEN
Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.
RICHARD ENGEL
Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.
KEVIN NEALON
The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
JANE GOODALL
The one who loves least controls the relationship.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Those who know the least obey the best.
GEORGE FARQUHAR
The one who loves least controls the relationship.
ANONYMOUS.
The guy who chokes least wins the most.
HUBERT GREEN
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Com...
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If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Comm...
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It has become very frustrating, to say the least, trying to secure an opponent for our man.
BRANCO MILENKOVIC
The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.
MICHAEL PATRICK KING
The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.
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People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
NATASHA LITTLE
You will admit that at least 40 percent of any vote in a Democratic race is humorless feminists.
TUCKER CARLSON
The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
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The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
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A man who says something different from the normal talk always appear to others to be running ahead,...
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People who know the least always argue the most.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
People who know the least always argue the most.
People who know the least always argue the most.
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It is always the ones who talk loudest who do the least.
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Who knows most believes least.
PROVERB
Who knows most speaks least
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
BARUCH SPINOZA
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand i...
BARUCH SPINOZA
True virtue is life under the direction of reason
BARUCH SPINOZA
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward
BARUCH SPINOZA
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, conf...
BARUCH SPINOZA
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to un...
BARUCH SPINOZA
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absu...
BARUCH SPINOZA
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, co...
BARUCH SPINOZA
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion
BARUCH SPINOZA
Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. Hatred wh...
BARUCH SPINOZA
I advise you to think, ask around and consult other people.
BARUCH MARZEL
Sharon stabbed us in the back. We have no time to pray for Sharon or to feel pain for Sharon. We are...
BARUCH MARZEL
We aren't praying for this evil person. He went against God. He went against the Bible. He betrayed ...
BARUCH MARZEL
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
BARUCH SPINOZA
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when...
BARUCH SPINOZA
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself
BARUCH SPINOZA
We feel and know that we are eternal
BARUCH SPINOZA
Self - complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause
BARUCH SPINOZA
God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things
BARUCH SPINOZA