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• When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the… — Edmund Burke
• I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and… — James Lee Burke
• The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not… — Maya Angelou
• The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no… — H. L. Mencken
• If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted… — Peter R. Orszag
• The results speak for themselves: Businesses that competitively sourced service contracts saved an average of about 22 percent. Even more… — Brian Miller
• This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away? — Jennifer Lawrence
• The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending,… — Margaret Thatcher
• An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods. — Ambrose Bierce
• The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
• We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong. — Ann Richards
• The lesson here, and my advice for other developers, is to find a way that you can quantify for people… — Bob Horner

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