"A recession is when your neighbour has to……" — Tommy Douglas
"A recession is when your neighbour has to tighten his belt. A depression is when you have to tighten your own belt. And a panic is when you have no belt to tighten and your pants fall down."
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Tommy Douglas
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24 Quotes by Tommy Douglas
Tommy Douglas has 24 quotes on this site.
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If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of…
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Courage, my friend, it's not too late to make the world a better place.
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The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we…
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We must never underestimate our opponents; nor should we forget that the closer we come to reaching our objectives, the…
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I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of…
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I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of…
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We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams won’t all come true; we won’t always make…
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The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare…
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It has been said that a country’s greatness can be measured by what it does for its unfortunates. By that…
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The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.
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Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins…
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I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good…
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More Belt Quotes
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one of 308 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is…
— Melody Beattie
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The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
— Konrad Adenauer
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I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you…
— Julia Cameron
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Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating…
— Tony Campolo
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If you're wearing a Bluetooth thing and you've got that thing on your belt, you are working for somebody else.…
— Drew Carey
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When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to…
— John le Carre
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Superman don't need no seat belt.
— Muhammad Ali
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I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at the top to make…
— Nick Clegg
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(About importance of focusing on one sport at a time) I've never tried to do that, we have more of…
— Trey Hardee
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When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as…
— Dorothy Wordsworth
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He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.
— Neil Simon
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He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.
— Horace
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