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Word for word, comma for comma, done by people that do it for a living -- and we had an exact transcript. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The big topics like that are still a work in progress. And those are very complex issues, particularly rules of origin, so eventually it will come down to every comma, every semicolon, everything before we can figure out if it's something that's workable. – Wilbur Ross	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
There are going to be many months in which people will be able to look at every comma and period and semicolon in this deal, and I feel very confident that when people evaluate the actual deal that is done, that they will see that, in fact, it is the most progressive trade deal in history. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus. – Marcel Proust	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma. – Larry Wall	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know. – Mistinguett	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath. – Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Word for word, comma for comma, done by people that do it for a living -- and we had an exact transcript.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The big topics like that are still a work in progress. And those are very complex issues, particularly rules of origin, so eventually it will come down to every comma, every semicolon, everything before we can figure out if it's something that's workable.

– Wilbur Ross

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There are going to be many months in which people will be able to look at every comma and period and semicolon in this deal, and I feel very confident that when people evaluate the actual deal that is done, that they will see that, in fact, it is the most progressive trade deal in history.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

– Marcel Proust

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

– Larry Wall

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

– Oscar Wilde

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

– Mistinguett

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

– Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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