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• The size of a challenge should never be measured by what we have to offer. It will never be enough. Furthermore, provision is God's responsibility, not ours. We are merely called to commit what we have - even if it's no more than a sack lunch.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Responsibility, Challenges, Size

  Charles R. Swindoll (2009). “Jesus: The Greatest Life of All”, p.117, Thomas Nelson

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• When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they did not redefine eating out. They were simply invited to the table. That is all we want to do; we have no desire to change marriage. We want to be entitled to not only the same privileges but the same responsibilities as straight people.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Responsibility, Gay, White

  "Gay Marriage and the Law" by Nick Traverse, www.newyorker.com. October 2, 2010.

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• I had a ploughman's lunch the other day. He wasn't very happy.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Very Happy

  "Tommy Cooper: the best quotes" by Michael Hogan, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2014.

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• You've really got to wear a chastity belt in Washington to preserve your journalistic virginity. Once the secretary of state invites you to lunch
  and asks your opinion, you're sunk.

  I. F. Stone

  Opinion, Belts, States

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• Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare.

  Anne Lamott

  Forgiveness, Mean, Done

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.47, Penguin

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• From 1973 to 1982 I ate the exact same lunch everyday . Turkey chili in a bowl made out of bread . Bread bowl George. First you eat the chili then you eat the bowl . There's nothing more satisfying than looking down after lunch and seeing nothing but a table.

  George Steinbrenner

  Turkeys, Everyday, Tables

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• No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost.

  Robin Renwick, Baron Renwick of Clifton

  Media, Giving, Effort

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• I have a friend who actually told me that she'd rather be dead than be fat. This is a woman who, if I order a sandwich at lunch, she'll order a salad. If I order a salad, she'll order half a cantaloupe. If I order half a cantaloupe, she'll order a cup of coffee. This bizarre contest continues until she's down to sucking on a mint-flavored toothpick. At this rate, her preference for dying over being fat could be a reality sooner than she thinks.

  Joy Behar

  Coffee, Thinking, Reality

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• The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.

  Mark Twain

  Girl, Skeletons, Piano

  Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales and Sketches 1864-1869”, p.235, Univ of California Press

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• Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote. Those rights are spelled out in the Bill of Rights and in our California Constitution. Voters and politicians alike would do well to take a look at the rights we each hold, which must never be chipped away by the whim of the majority.

  James Bovard

  Taken, Two, California

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• You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch. Writing is work. It's also gambling. You don't get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but ­essentially you're on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don't whine.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Writing, Mean

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• If more persons would get so enthused over their day's work that some one would have to remind them to go out to lunch there would be more happiness in the world and less indigestion.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Would Be, World, Indigestion

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with Clive Barker, and my mind plunges into the gutter and I draw an appalling blank on anything that is not violent, gory, profanity laden, or depraved. So I think the only way I can ever do kid's books if I plan not to do kid's books. If that makes any sense.

  Ursula Vernon

  Book, Kids, Thinking

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• Now I'm heading home for a nooner, which is what I call having pancakes for lunch.

  LIZ

  Home, Pancakes, Headings

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• Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last week the Senate handed the bill to the wrong party... the poor and middle class.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Party, Class

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• Because Fox News is allegedly biased in favor of conservatives, critics whine like children whose lunch money got snatched. Conservatives have been pummeled for decades. Now that Fox News and conservative talk radio give people alternatives, critics squeal as if being sodomized.

  Larry Elder

  Children, People, Giving

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• Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most people living below the official poverty line also have air conditioning, color television, and a microwave oven - and these too are not usually handed out by government entitlement programs.
  
  Cell phones and other electronic devices are by no means unheard of in low-income neighborhoods, where children would supposedly go hungry if there were no school-lunch programs. In reality, low-income people are overweight more often than other Americans.

  Thomas Sowell

  Children, School, Mean

  "Dependency and Votes" by Thomas Sowell, www.nationalreview.com. May 24, 2011.

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• Seems Google management figured out it is cheaper, happier and more productive to take care of their employees and create a positive work environment than to burn them to a crisp, make them afraid of the future, and send them off into the highways and byways of California in search of a Taco Bell for lunch.

  Joe McNally

  California, Google, Taco Bell

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• Paris for lunch, dinner in St. Petersburg.

  Wilhelm II

  Paris, Dinner

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• When I'm on a plane, people know where I'm going before I even know where I'm going. People know where you had lunch yesterday, or who you had lunch with. So, trying to avoid sharing everything with everyone is my way of keeping something private in my life.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Yesterday, People, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• While no one wishes to incur losses, you couldn't prove it from an examination of the behavior of most investors and speculators. The speculative urge that lies within most of us is strong; the prospect of a free lunch can be compelling, especially when others have already seemingly partaken. It can be hard to concentrate on potential losses while others are greedily reaching for gains and your broker is on the phone offering shares in the latest "hot" initial public offering. Yet the avoidance of loss is the surest way to ensure a profitable outcome.

  Seth Klarman

  Strong, Lying, Loss

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• Rightly or wrongly, most Americans look at mortgage equity withdrawal as the closest thing to a free lunch.

  Paul McCulley

  Withdrawal, Looks, Mortgage

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• Reverse the typical American meal pattern and instead eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch and a pauper for supper.

  Jane Brody

  Kings, Typical, Meals

  Jane E. Brody (1982). “Jane Brody's The New York times guide to personal health”, Times Books(NY)

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• Lunch should consist of at least 1/3 relationship building talk. If you don't have time for business talk, it was a very successful lunch.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Successful, Building, Should

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• My favorite fall or winter lunch is big steaming bowls of soup. I usually invite people for around 12:30 and have two hearty soups like shrimp corn chowder and lentil sausage soup, which can be made a day or two ahead.

  Ina Garten

  Fall, Winter, Two

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