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Ricky Here's what I'm gonna ask of you... We're going to be spending the night in New York, so it worked out well for all of us. I want you to take it back to the business class, I want you to round up a couple of honeys... At our hotel room we're gonna have kind of a pool party. California gangster-style, you know what I mean Kick ass pool party thing. – Made	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much. – Elbert Hubbard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure. – Seneca	added by anonymous 14 years ago
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.' – Helen Hayes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came. – Jefferson Davis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It's quicker to pull your Smith & Wesson than to dial 911 if you're being robbed. – Lowell Duckett	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. – Robert Hutchins	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The farther it gets from the bench it was worked on, the more real the real world becomes. – Tod Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind. – Julius Rosenwald	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them. – Thomas Sowell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. – Thomas Sowell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The present is theirs. The future, for which I really worked, is mine. – Nikola Tesla	added by frogmorton 14 years ago
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. – Hunter S. Thompson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. – Orville Wright	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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