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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind. -- Paul Theroux
Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year. -- Sparky Anderson
We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress. -- Nick Lampson
A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank. -- Ron Paul
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form? -- Dag Hammarskjold
I don't sign contracts for my books. -- Andrew Vachss
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it. -- Terry Wogan
My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts. -- Gerard Butler
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. -- Samuel Goldwyn
Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already. -- Linda Fiorentino
I didn't sign any contracts, and I didn't see any oil. -- Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts. -- Jay Mohr
It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations. -- John Walker Lindh
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts. -- William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract. -- Robert A. Heinlein
For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger of an actual fault. -- Thomas Creech
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated. -- Nelson Mandela
The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts. -- Patrick Stewart
It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money. -- Sherry Stringfield
I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract. -- Groucho Marx
It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. -- Alan Shepard
One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract. -- Anthony Trollope
Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company. -- Roy Ayers
I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio -- Dalton Trumbo
The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes. -- Alexander Pope
Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts. -- Nelson Mandela
I have no contracts with my clients; just a handshake is enough. -- Irving Paul Lazar
When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts. -- Vivek Wadhwa
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed. -- Eli Broad
Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes. -- Joshua Prince-Ramus
Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts - all of this made commerce more appealing than plunder. -- Steven Pinker
The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information. -- Bryant H. McGill
Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create. -- Howard Rheingold
A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of the most valuable and indispensable of all human possessions. -- Lysander Spooner
A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her. -- Helen Rowland
Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts. -- Henry Mintzberg
Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty. -- Grover Norquist
An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network. -- Marc Andreessen
In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories! -- James Belushi
What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing. -- Matt Taibbi
Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in addition to just making money. We examine and treat patients, we teach students, we draw up contracts and wills, we write for newspapers, magazines, and web sites, we clean floors, or we serve meals. -- Barry Schwartz
The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age. -- Lysander Spooner
Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I've spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan. -- Richard Bach
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.' -- Amity Shlaes
Mark Hopkins was one of the truest and best men that ever lived. He had a keen analytical mind; was thoroughly accurate, and took general supervision of the books, contracts, etc. He was strictly the office man, and never bought or sold anything. I always felt when I was in the East that our business in his hands was entirely safe. -- Collis Potter Huntington
I don't pitch for contracts. -- Curt Schilling
As government expands, liberty contracts. -- Ronald Reagan
The heart contracts as the pocket expands. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
God helps those who have no-cut contracts. -- Aesop
To me party platforms are contracts with the people. -- Harry S. Truman
To love unconditionally requires no contracts, bargains or agreements. -- Marion Woodman
No State shall pass any law impairing the [natural] obligation of contracts. -- Lysander Spooner
Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery -- Prince
People like Shakira shouldnt have record contracts. She cant even speak English. -- Avril Lavigne
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts. -- William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
All wisdom contracts then expands, contracts then expands. That is how consciousness evolves. -- S. Kelley Harrell
Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart. -- Haruki Murakami
In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs. -- Friedrich Schiller
No one in their right mind would turn down the contracts I've been offered. -- Kevin Pietersen
Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time. -- Myles Munroe
One advantage of bad bidding is that you get practice at playing atrocious contracts. -- Alfred Sheinwold
I made publicity contracts with Nike, several broadcasting companies and airline companies within Australia. -- Cathy Freeman
Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts. -- William James Mayo
Some employees are protected by union or personal contracts that limit reasons for dismissal. -- Bill Dedman
Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers. -- Lord Acton
Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor. -- Annie Dillard
The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty. -- Will McDonough
Every day is a new day with me. All holds are off. All contracts are forgotten. -- Truman Capote
Outreach appearances in the schools are usually part of my contracts, and I love doing them. -- Danielle de Niese
As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts. -- Sophie Swetchine
Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past. -- Jacques Delors
I've got two contracts in my life: One with my wife and the other to protect Andy Dalton. -- Andrew Whitworth
Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in. -- Joseph Addison
The highest laws of the land (America) are not only the constitution and constitutional laws, but also contracts. -- Hannah
Because of my filming commitments in America, you have to sign contracts where you can't change your physical appearance. -- Rebel Wilson
I have made lots of mistakes in terms of contracts and spending money when I shouldn't have spent money. -- Jenson Button
Mercy.Do any of the gods care about such things or only that their contracts and agreements are fulfilled? -- T.K. Thorne
Possession of territory is not primarily about laws and contracts, but first and foremost a matter of movement and circulation. -- Paul Virilio
Customers and contracts are like water and a sieve. The customer will find the largest hole and slide through it. -- Larry McVoy
I spend more time with Gucci [Mane] or Birdman than 300, but all this is just family. Who cares [about] contracts? -- Young Thug
Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories. -- Kenneth Goldsmith
Am I crazy to spend [millions] in contracts when I have the chance to get three layers deep into the playoffs? -- Mark Cuban
It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money. -- Jonathan Horton
Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith. -- Alexander Hamilton
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium. -- William Shenstone
In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money. -- Jesse Ventura
Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis. -- Dalton Trumbo
In the technical realm, we repeatedly enter into a series of social contracts, the terms of which are revealed only after the signing. -- Langdon Winner
From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable. -- Jim Doyle
She'd like to model or maybe act or star in a magazine. Before she signs any big contracts, she better learn how to read. -- Thomas Dolby
We should be focused on the Haiti earthquake victims, not on what contracts your company should get, if you're a friend of Bill [Clinton]. -- Kellyanne Conway
When I saw the others like Michael, Ross Brawn and Todt renewing their contracts, I always said that I was happy to do so. -- Rubens Barrichello
I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It's not my thing. I don't want to cheat people. -- Azzedine Alaia
What freedom am I being offered while the organization of the people remains banned? Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts, -- Nelson Mandela
Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business. -- J. Michael Straczynski
I support local solutions to illegal immigration as protected by the 10th amendment. I support making English the official language of all documents and contracts.. -- Rand Paul
There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services. -- Sean Parker
My feeling is that contracts should always be honored. ... This is a situation where a legally binding contract is not being honored and that's not right... -- Gary Bettman
What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller? -- Walter Savage Landor
I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts. -- Raghav Bahl
Among our responsibilities is to make sure that 23 percent of all government contracts go to small businesses. That's about $150 billion annually, from all the government agencies. -- Karen Mills
If Boeing got a big head start on the 707 from multibillion-dollar military contracts to develop an air force transport, is that a sin against free trade? -- Robert Kuttner
Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune. -- William Shenstone
The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next! -- Jorja Fox
Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature. -- David Ricardo
As long as humanity has been human, it has looked toward the heavens and dreamed that some day, some way, there would be giant federal contracts involved. -- Dave Barry
In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either. -- Ike Turner
If I found the right guy, I think I would get married. Maybe. I just feel like it's just a contract. Why sign any more contracts, really? -- Drea De Matteo
We've got Chinese, white, black and mixed; but remember that our colors are cheap, for after many years of contracts and tricks nobody's purity runs very deep. -- Nicolas Guillen
When you're 'recruiting' people in temporary positions for the firm (short-term contracts, free-lancers, etc.) treat them well: remember, they're the only ones who actually do any work. -- Corinne Maier
Fear is energy which contracts, closes down, draws in, runs, hides, hoards, harms. Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, stays, reveals, shares, HEALS. -- Neale Donald Walsch
The results speak for themselves: Businesses that competitively sourced service contracts saved an average of about 22 percent. Even more impressive - nearly every e-auction delivered cost savings. -- Brian Miller
Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining mutual injury. -- Epicurus
Mr. President, the dedication of 35 percent of all construction contracts to women is really mind blowing to say the least. President Jonathan's benevolence to women is unbelievably phenomenal. -- Kema Chikwe
When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you're expansive, no matter what the weather, you're in an open, windy field with friends. -- Rumi

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