Bix Bender Quotes

#1. I desired dragons with a profound desire.

C.S. Lewis

#2. You can just about always stand more 'n you think you can.

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#3. A good pard is always close by when you're in a tight squeeze.
Dn't let

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#4. You monkeys only think you're running things,

Dennis McKenna

#5. Never be too quick to criticize yourself. It's not fair to all of your friends and relatives, who are dying to do it for you.

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#6. The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.

Dick Ebersol

#7. The real lowdown on gardening is ... dirt.

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#8. It's easy to see things you're lookin' for. The trick is to see things you're not looking for.

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#9. Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a raindance.

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#10. The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.

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#11. Sports, Politics and Technology. All the same game.

George Shirk

#12. I was born in the middle of the century in the middle of the country, a classic Baby Boomer.

Mitt Romney

#13. It is hardly possible to estimate how many marriages fail to prosper or are actually ruined because the man lacks any inkling of the art of love.

Hermann Graf Keyserling

#14. Stolen kisses require an accomplice.

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#15. My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.

Ricardo Lagos

#16. Don't quit because it's hard. Quit because it's not hard enough

Yoan Alexandrov

#17. Speak your mind, but ride a fast horse.

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#18. Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.

Rupert Sanders

#19. The death penalty costs too much. Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons. (p. 197)

Helen Prejean

#20. Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#21. always close by when you're in a tight squeeze.
Dn't let the sun set on a quarrel with a pard.
A good pard will at least pretend

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#22. Just 'cause you're following a
well-marked trail don't mean
that whoever made it knew where
they were goin'.

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#23. Remain independent of any source of income that will deprive you of your personal liberties.

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#24. There's a lot more to ridin' a horse than just sittin' in the saddle and lettin' yer feet hang down.

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#25. Always take a good look at what you're about to eat. It's not so important to know what it is, but it's critical to know what it was

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#26. Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.

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