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Tag Name "Borrowed" (176)

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Borrowed garments never keep one warm.
James Russell Lowell
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Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence
John Adams
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And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.
George Orwell
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Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.
Anne Sexton
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To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
George Santayana
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It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.
Baltasar Gracian
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.
George Steiner
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In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite fundamentalists.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them.
Gilles Menage
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
Ben Jonson
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It's not a random chance that we have Alanis Morissette. She didn't evolve out of a null and void. She came from a former template. She borrowed styles and sounds from a very limited set of other artists.
Greg Graffin
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Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.
Benjamin Franklin
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I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.
Guy Fieri
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My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
Boz Scaggs
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The U.S. didn't save enough we borrowed a lot. There were structural imbalances in Asia with exporters, with oil exporters for a whole variety of things.
Henry Paulson
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My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach it is not borrowed from what others are doing.
Charlie Chaplin
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Whenever you permit yourself to think what persons, things, conditions, or circumstances may suggest, you are not following what you want to think. You are not following your own desires but borrowed desires. Use your imagination in determining what you want to think or do.
Christian D. Larson
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There is a word Kristos in the Greek dictionary, and this word is supposed to be borrowed from the Sanskrit word Krishna, and Christ is derived from Kristos.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book.
Dale Carnegie
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice we cannot have both.
Abraham Flexner
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We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.
David Dinkins
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I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.
Adrian Belew
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No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.
Dee Dee Myers
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