'Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks'
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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
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A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.
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The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.
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Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
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The attorney general's repeated refrain was, 'Trust us' - we have all the necessary checks and balances within NSA and the Justice Department.
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SCCS is the source-code motel -- your code checks in but it never checks out.
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After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later this fall.
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Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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Old fools are babes again, and must be used With checks as flatteries.
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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
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Checks and balances does not mean writing the checks while ignoring the balances.
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Only a fool checks the depth of water with both legs.
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