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People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily. — Michele Bachmann
California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that. — Saul Bellow
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. — Robert Benchley
Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee
As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit… — Julie Burchill
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. — Amos Bronson Alcott
My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She… — Jennifer Garner
There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose… — Robert Creeley
Sooner or later we all quote our mothers. — Bernard Williams
When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly. — Michel de Montaigne
You stop viewing yourself as being "pushed around" by the world when you realize that only you can "push" yourself. To quote Buddha: "Nothing is… — Ken Keyes Jr.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I quote others in order to better express myself. — Michel de Montaigne
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying. — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution… — Abraham Lincoln
He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place… — Robert Green Ingersoll
There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be… — Robert Foster Bennett
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. — Clifton Fadiman
We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we… — Ihab Hassan

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