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There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.

~Gaylord Perry

Topics: Between Difference Grand Larceny

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When I started writing, the deal was that publishers gave you a grand or two as an advance to buy some sweets, with the promise that they would make a big putsch with your fourth book when you'd built up a bit of a following. But by the time my fourth book came out, previously unpublished authors were the new big thing.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Advance Authors Big Big Thing Bit Book Built Buy By The Time Came Deal Following Fourth Gave Grand Make New Out Promise Publishers Some Started Sweets Thing Time Two Up Were Would Writing You Your

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The classic think-tank is supposed to be sitting in an attic thinking up grand ideas.

~Geoff Mulgan

Topics: Attic Classic Grand Ideas Sitting Supposed Thinking Up

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Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.

~George Ayittey

Topics: Cases Cause Caused Collapsed Corruption Destruction Devastated Dictators Economies Grand Horrendous Human Leaving Naked Plunder Problems States Theft Trails Treasury Wake Wanton World Worst

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Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.

~George Grey

Topics: Air Although Beautiful Breath Grand Great Majestic Motion Offered Quite Sea Slowly Spectacle Stirring Sunrise Tides Very Water

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The only music we ever listened to out in the piney woods was Roy Acuff and the Grand Ole Opry. That was the only night of the week I was allowed to lay in the middle of the bed with Mama and Daddy, just long enough to hear Roy Acuff sing; then I had to go back to bed.

~George Jones

Topics: Allowed Back Bed Daddy Enough Ever Go Grand Had Hear Just Lay Listened Long Mama Middle Music Night Only Out Roy Sing Then Week Woods

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It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

~George Matthew Adams

Topics: Backbone Big Brain End Fertile Good Grand Great Great Thing Ideals Imagination Man Serve Sure Thing Useful

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Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

~George Will

Topics: Arizona Baseball Canyon Created Equal Game Games Grand Grand Canyon Hole Holes Only Said True

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A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

~Gertrude Jekyll

Topics: Above Careful Entire Garden Grand Industry Patience Teacher Teaches Thrift Trust

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