The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises or lowers the amount of interest. Any business that can't survive a one percent change must be skating on thin ice. Why even the poor farmer took a raise of another ten percent just to get a loan from the bank, and nobody from the government paid any attention. But you let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help to get them back into bed again.
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The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
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I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
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The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights
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Robert E Lee didn't make it the first time and Jefferson Davis took the vacancy. Pershing didn't make it for two years, MacArthur couldn't get in the first year and Eisenhower took an extra year of high school to get in. Patton took three years to get in and five to get out.
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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
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Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
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I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
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There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set. If you have lost anybody anywhere and don
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The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
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Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
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With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.
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One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.
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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
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Recent research has revealed that birds are capable of complex cognition . . . it is now clear that birds have cognitive capacities equivalent to those of mammals, even primates . . . it should be realized that even vastly improved intensive systems are unlikely to meet the cognitive demands of the hitherto underestimated chicken brain. . . . With the increased knowledge of the behaviour and cognitive abilities of the chicken has come the realization that the chicken is not an inferior species to be treated merely as a food source.
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Politics is applesauce.
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Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
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It's just terrifying and it stress them and they don't meet with a very humane end. They're probably going to be torn apart by the dogs.
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On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
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If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
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There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't always work that way. Everyone likes a good detective story. I went through my Hammett phase in college. I think the attraction is, in life our mysteries aren't exciting. You know They're just intractable and depressing and enervating. Like, why do we always hurt the ones we love. Where does the money go ...in a detective story, at least the universe makes sense. It was him. He did it. The natural order is disturbed, but the beauty of it is that it's restored again.
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I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.
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People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible.
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If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.
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There should be one day when there is open season on senators.
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