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“Now, for Romney to believe that somebody's grandmother is going to be so cut off she is going to self deport... He certainly shows no concern for the humanity of people who are already here... I think you have to live in worlds of Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island accounts and automatic $20 million a year income with no work to have some fantasy this far from reality.”

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Author:Newt Gingrich

“A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it is an ornament for those who have filled up their lives with great deeds. I liken them to beauty in dishabille, but more bewitching on that account.”

Simple Cutting Accounts Filled Deeds Suits Costumes Vulgar Ornaments Filled Up

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“I think all countries need to aim to cut the CO2 emissions per person, taking account of externalities like imports and exports.”

Thinking Needs Persons Country Cutting Accounts Aim Emissions Imports Co2 Co2 Emissions Externalities

Author:Martin Rees

“When you start cutting government expenditure, at some point you are cutting essential services rather than excessive services. So you have to take into account the social costs involved in cutting government spending.”

Government Social Cutting Involved Cost Essentials Accounts Spending Expenditures Government Spending

Author:Raghuram Rajan

“When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad.”

Source: The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical

“I ended my Twitter account a week after I got on the show. I felt like, "This is not a good tool for me to keep my narcissism at bay," so I cut it off.”

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Author:Mireille Enos

“No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.”

Real Matter Social Cutting Security Accounts Debate Social Security Legitimacy

Author:Joe Biden

“There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply.”

Ifs Heart Cutting Accounts

Author:Neil Gaiman

“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but — mainly — to ourselves.”

Stories Life Is Challenges Our Lives Cutting Goes On Accounts Fewer Life Story Life Goes On Sly Longer Life

Author:Julian Barnes

“It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.”

World Cutting Accounts Monsters Asceticism

Book:Frankenstein: The Original Story

Source: Frankenstein: The Original Story

“Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. If you look at the results which science has brought in its train, you will find them to consist almost wholly in elements of mischief. See how much belongs to the word "Explosion" alone, of which the ancients knew nothing.”

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Author:Arthur Eddington

“Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.”

Knows Way Science Left Wealth Know How Cutting Accounts Casts Fishes Daily Life Ponds Muddy Mingling

Author:Alexander Herzen

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money.”