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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.


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DEYTH BANGER In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
VINCE MCMAHON Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
J. P. MORGAN Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
THOMAS CARLYLE As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
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HAMISH PEPPER Unless we can restore what George Orwell called patriotism as opposed to nationalism, we will see th...
JONATHAN SACKS As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
GARRY TRUDEAU As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.
SASHA LANE A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
JOYCE MEYER Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
DICK VAN DYKE Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
JEF RASKIN As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
JON BATISTE As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.
TROY BROWN That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.
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LORD SALISBURY Verily there is nothing in all Europe so beautiful as Valldemosa.
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NORHAMZAH NORDIN Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing.
EVANDER HOLYFIELD As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
DAVY JONES As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.
GERHARD SCHRODER The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
EDWARD GREY The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime
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DON POWELL As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
VINCE MCMAHON In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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NATALIE GULBIS We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.
SETH BERKLEY Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
JOSEPH STALIN As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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ALESSANDRO NIVOLA I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
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ROBERT KAGAN That's SHIT!

How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
THOMAS JEFFERSON In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my fam...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON We seldom report of having eaten too little.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Tranquility is the old man's milk.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
THOMAS JEFFERSON In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
THOMAS JEFFERSON No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON