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The firm is really ahead of the times. It has a stock market ticker that prints its report on thin aspirins.

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Bob Hope
Age: 100 †
Born: 1903
Born: May 29
Died: 2003
Died: July 27
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I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die. I saw more courage, more good humor in the face of discomfort, more love in an era of hate and more devotion to duty than could exist under tyranny.
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I once showed Pat Bradley my swing and said, 'What do I do next?' Pat replied, 'Wait till the pain dies down.'
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A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
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Now that the war is winding down, I want to say I do appreciate you fellows hanging around here - just for me.
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Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.
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Lots of travel, away from home.
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As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window. I asked the colonel what type of aircraft it was, and he said, Don't worry about it, Bob. . . if you can see it, it's obsolete.
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If you think golf is relaxing, you're not playing it right.
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I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.
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Go figure a crazy, mixed-up country where ballet outsells boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if their wrestling was on the level.
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It flies so high, I swear I heard the organs playing.
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Bing Crosby and I play a lot of golf together and I have a small course at my place where we often play for side stakes. The only troulbe is that when I win, I always have to engage and attorney before I can draw the money.
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If they liked you, they didn't applaud -- they let you live.
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I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw at me.
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You know, marriage is making a big comeback. I know personally that in Hollywood people are marrying people they never married before.
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All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It's in the lease.
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