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Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. – Justice Joseph Story	added by Normando 1 year ago
So, the Party now compiles dossiers on millions of foreign citizens around the world, using the material that it gathers to influence, target, intimidate, reward, blackmail, flatter, humiliate, and ultimately divide and conquer. – Matthew Pottinger	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Almost everyone has gut issues, once all the old sludge is cleaned out of your gut, you stop bloating and you lose weight. Although this was not designed as a weight loss program, your stomach [does feel] flatter and your energy is through the roof. – Suzanne Somers	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The 10-year (Treasury) yield has just plummeted, with flatter earnings coming into the third quarter, we've seen the PE multiple expansion courtesy of these lower rates. – Bucky Hellwig	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Mallorca has been a nice relaxed start to the grasscourt swing, all in all, being on the grass for five days it's going pretty well. Just finding a way to get the ball shooting through and hitting flatter. – Samantha Stosur	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Just as this week's 'tactical weapon' test was a signal to warn Trump that his much-vaunted 'freeze' is in jeopardy, the verbal attack on Pompeo is meant to encourage Trump to ignore his hardline advisers and make a deal with his 'friend' Kim Jong Un, as long as the North Koreans believe they can flatter and dupe the U.S. president into making important concessions ... they will resist dealing with less gullible and more demanding subordinate U.S. officials. – Daniel Russel	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down. – William F. Buckley Jr.	added by Normando 5 years ago
Interest rates are really starting to bite. Cash is now expensive. Cross-border flows are being driven by 'how do I get away from negative yields', as rates go lower and curves go flatter, finding yield by extending duration is clearly running out of steam. – Stephen Cohen	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
As rates go lower and curves go flatter, finding yield by extending duration is clearly running out of steam. – Stephen Cohen	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The revenue declines have been largest in those states like ours with highly progressive tax systems, and smallest in states with flatter tax structures. – Treasurer Ford Scudder	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The focus will be on supporting Vincenzo Nibali and protecting through the flatter, mid-mountain stages, then, when it comes to the key stages, Vincenzo Nibali can do Vincenzo Nibali thing. – Dave Brailsford	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
For to be great, You will not flatter anyone. You’ll never cheat on someone. You will see the real purpose for the country and you will walk to that destination. Everyone will be against you. Everyone will try to turn you from your path. But you'll endure that. They will stack up infinite obstacles in front of you. You will pass over these obstacles by assuming yourself not big, but small, weak, unequipped, nothing and by being sure there will be no help from anyone. After that, if they say you “you're great", you'll just smile at them. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk	added by anonymous 8 years ago
He could flatter and still be real. – Curator Xavier Bray	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I support a plan that is much flatter and fairer, i also strongly believe that every American should pay something according to their means. We are all Americans and we all have the same rights and responsibilities. – Ben Carson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We want tax reform. It’s critically important for our country. We’ve got a tax system that no one understands. Not even the IRS understands, if we had a flatter, simpler tax code that would allow 95 percent of the American people to do their own taxes, we ’d have a much healthier economy. – John Boehner	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We need to pass fundamental tax reform making our tax code simpler, flatter, fairer, and I’ll tell you, the single most important tax reform, we should abolish the IRS. – Ted Cruz	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues. – Elizabeth Gaskell	added by anonymous 9 years ago
There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater. – Louis Aragon	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise. – Wendell Phillips	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. – Charles Caleb Colton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. – Molière	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor. – Francis Quarles	added by anonymous 10 years ago
No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets. – Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

– Justice Joseph Story

added by Normando
1 year ago

So, the Party now compiles dossiers on millions of foreign citizens around the world, using the material that it gathers to influence, target, intimidate, reward, blackmail, flatter, humiliate, and ultimately divide and conquer.

– Matthew Pottinger

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Almost everyone has gut issues, once all the old sludge is cleaned out of your gut, you stop bloating and you lose weight. Although this was not designed as a weight loss program, your stomach [does feel] flatter and your energy is through the roof.

– Suzanne Somers

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The 10-year (Treasury) yield has just plummeted, with flatter earnings coming into the third quarter, we've seen the PE multiple expansion courtesy of these lower rates.

– Bucky Hellwig

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Mallorca has been a nice relaxed start to the grasscourt swing, all in all, being on the grass for five days it's going pretty well. Just finding a way to get the ball shooting through and hitting flatter.

– Samantha Stosur

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Just as this week's 'tactical weapon' test was a signal to warn Trump that his much-vaunted 'freeze' is in jeopardy, the verbal attack on Pompeo is meant to encourage Trump to ignore his hardline advisers and make a deal with his 'friend' Kim Jong Un, as long as the North Koreans believe they can flatter and dupe the U.S. president into making important concessions ... they will resist dealing with less gullible and more demanding subordinate U.S. officials.

– Daniel Russel

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.

– William F. Buckley Jr.

added by Normando
5 years ago

Interest rates are really starting to bite. Cash is now expensive. Cross-border flows are being driven by 'how do I get away from negative yields', as rates go lower and curves go flatter, finding yield by extending duration is clearly running out of steam.

– Stephen Cohen

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

As rates go lower and curves go flatter, finding yield by extending duration is clearly running out of steam.

– Stephen Cohen

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The revenue declines have been largest in those states like ours with highly progressive tax systems, and smallest in states with flatter tax structures.

– Treasurer Ford Scudder

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The focus will be on supporting Vincenzo Nibali and protecting through the flatter, mid-mountain stages, then, when it comes to the key stages, Vincenzo Nibali can do Vincenzo Nibali thing.

– Dave Brailsford

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For to be great, You will not flatter anyone. You’ll never cheat on someone. You will see the real purpose for the country and you will walk to that destination. Everyone will be against you. Everyone will try to turn you from your path. But you'll endure that. They will stack up infinite obstacles in front of you. You will pass over these obstacles by assuming yourself not big, but small, weak, unequipped, nothing and by being sure there will be no help from anyone. After that, if they say you “you're great", you'll just smile at them. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

– Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

added by anonymous
8 years ago

He could flatter and still be real.

– Curator Xavier Bray

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I support a plan that is much flatter and fairer, i also strongly believe that every American should pay something according to their means. We are all Americans and we all have the same rights and responsibilities.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We want tax reform. It’s critically important for our country. We’ve got a tax system that no one understands. Not even the IRS understands, if we had a flatter, simpler tax code that would allow 95 percent of the American people to do their own taxes, we ’d have a much healthier economy.

– John Boehner

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We need to pass fundamental tax reform making our tax code simpler, flatter, fairer, and I’ll tell you, the single most important tax reform, we should abolish the IRS.

– Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

– Elizabeth Gaskell

added by anonymous
9 years ago

There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

– Louis Aragon

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

– Wendell Phillips

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

– Charles Caleb Colton

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

– Molière

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

– Francis Quarles

added by anonymous
10 years ago

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

– Aristotle

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.

– Unknown

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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