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So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

~Allen Tate

Topics: Automobile Because Cannot Even Failure Fictitious He His Interesting Life Makes Nobody Other Perfect Persons Plain Poet Predicament Salesman Something Up Versions Wants Who

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Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.

~Bill Ackman

Topics: Business Customers Degree Fictitious Fraud Opportunity Scam University

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If you look at the great frauds of all time, Enron had that phantom trading floor. What Herbalife has is it has phantom or fictitious customers.

~Bill Ackman

Topics: Customers Enron Fictitious Floor Frauds Great Had Look Phantom Time Trading You

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My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow.

~Colleen Mccullough

Topics: Always Back Between Bit Characters Counted Dragging Fictitious Gallop However Insist Narrow Off Something Straight Take Teeth Them Will

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If a stranger is writing something completely fictitious, or insulting me on a blog or a tabloid, I don't take it personally.

~Dasha Zhukova

Topics: Blog Fictitious Insulting Me Personally Something Stranger Tabloid Take Writing

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We like non-fiction because we live in fictitious times.

~David Shields

Topics: Because Fictitious Like Live Non-Fiction Times

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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

~Frederic Bastiat

Topics: Else Entity Everyone Everyone Else Expense Fictitious Great Live Seeks State Which

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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

~Garet Garrett

Topics: Astonish Currency Did Doing Fictitious Gold Government Great Need Own Paper Paying Price Purpose Spectacle Value Want World

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The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

~George Saintsbury

Topics: Affected Artist Both Cannot Copy Ends Fictitious Giving Insisted Language Life Manners Materials Model Often Process State Too Transition Uncertain Unstable Work

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