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«One cannot help but be aware of the great scurrying to borrow, spend, invest, divest or just flat out hide things in the next three months before the wisdom of Congress falls upon us.»

Author: George Vecsey | Keywords: divest, divested, fall flat, flat out, scurry, scurrying, the US Congress

«The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence»

Author: Marie Edgeworth | About: Resolution | Keywords: dissipate, dissipated, execute, hurry, indolence, resolutions, scurry, scurrying, slough, sunk

«It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that--it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown--then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?»

Author: John Lennon (Political activist, Singer, Songwriter) | Keywords: ahead of the game, chasing, frightened, illusions, In Love and War, peace-loving, plain, plain sailing, sailing, scurry, scurrying, sends, unknown, wars

«I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.»

Author: P. J. O'Rourke (Humorist, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: absolve, absolved, code, critter, critters, journalist, Journalists, motive, objectivity, Olympian, purity, roach, roaches, scurry, scurrying, step on, turn on

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