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Comfort, simplicity, practicality - these are all American words. It is simplicity in fabric and way of cut. You cannot produce complicated clothes or spend… — Zoran
True men" ... are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions… — Zhuangzi
Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that… — George Bernard Shaw
I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year… — Bob Uecker
These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored. — Langston Hughes
I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues. — Unknown Author
It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter. — Marya Mannes
Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But… — Stephen Leacock
I've been singing since I was nine or ten. — Kelli O'Hara
Well, I wasnt just kind of standing in a queue at McDonalds and someone sat down and said, Youre the director of a $100 million… — Rupert Sanders
A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be… — W. Somerset Maugham
When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms… — W. Somerset Maugham
Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect… — Dick Gregory
It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of… — J. G. Ballard
A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician. — Samuel Johnson
The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life. — John Donne
One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten… — Alfred North Whitehead
Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised… — Laurence Sterne
I confess that when I first read that smog is particularly hazardous to children, senior citizens, and physically active people, for a brief moment I… — Paula Poundstone
The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any… — Paul Gauguin
Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine… — Molly Ivins
A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words. — George Ade
If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture… — Lee Iacocca

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