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So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.
Sherwood Boehlert
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And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?


Tillie Olsen
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I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.


Coco Chanel
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I don't weigh myself - it's all about how I feel in my clothes.


Christina Aguilera
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.


Dick Cavett
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I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.


William Wycherley
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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.


Milton Friedman
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon
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I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.
Rod Taylor
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I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh.
Richard Simmons
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I had a reporter ask me how much I weigh. I said to him, 'You go first: How much do you weigh?' People always ask me what I eat. Other artists don't get asked these questions.
Meghan Trainor
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Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.
Craig Charles
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I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.
Ruby Wax
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.


Wallis Simpson
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Eighteen months ago I weighed 95kg and had a 40-inch waist. Now the waist is down to 34 inches and I weigh nearly 98kg.
Lee Westwood
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
Nate Silver
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The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.
Lamar Alexander
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I will say, nothing in my time in the Senate has more surprised me than senators and House members want to weigh in on everything under the sun, but they do not want to weigh in on a clearly defined constitutional duty to declare war. It just stuns me.
Tim Kaine
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Zhuangzi
India's blood and India's gold was sought and unfortunately given - given to break Turkey and buy the fetters of the Rowlatt legislation.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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