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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. -- William Butler Yeats
I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path. -- Debi Mazar
Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs. -- Jonathan Edwards
All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -- Ernest Rutherford
Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting. -- Ernest Rutherford
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. -- Charles Baudelaire
The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus. -- C. S. Lewis
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job. -- Napoleon Hill
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. -- Josh Billings
Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. -- Thomas Jefferson
It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. -- Emile Durkheim
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. -- Norman Vincent Peale
It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to stamp out terrorism, install democracy, eliminate fascism, and most entertainingly, to "rid the world of evil-doers. -- Arundhati Roy
Each person discovers a field of allurements, the totality of which bears the unique stamp of that person's personality. Destiny unfolds in the pursuit of individual fascinations and interests ... By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion. -- Brian Swimme
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn. -- George Washington
Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it. -- Shania Twain
Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used to heaping on yourself. Such self-bashing is never useful. If you indulge in it, your writing doesn't stand a chance. So when your mind turns on you, turn it back, stamp it down, shut it up, and keep writing. -- Gail Carson Levine
Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps itself on the unwritten page of the young child's mind. It is her caress that first awakens a sense of security; her kiss, the first realization of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world. -- David O. McKay
For a man is a little lower than the angels, yet was made that he might become the companion of the Creative Forces; and thus was given--in the breath of life--the individual soul, the stamp of approval as it were of the Creator; with the ability to know itself to be itself, and to make itself, as one with the Creative Forces--irrespective of other influences. -- Edgar Cayce
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks. -- Thomas Jefferson
God must've had a blast. painting the stripes on the zebra, hanging the stars in the sky, putting the gold in the sunset. What creativity! Stretching the neck of the giraffe, putting the flutter in the mockingbird's wings, planting the giggle in the hyena. And then, as a finale to a brilliant performance, He made a human who had the unique honour to bear the stamp, In His Image. -- Max Lucado
Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade. -- William Cowper
In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like. -- Maya Angelou
Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them. -- Samuel West
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The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid. -- Franklin Raines
The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.' -- Niger Innis
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected. -- Clare Boothe Luce
Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps. -- Charles B. Rangel
In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps. -- Dave Barry
I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now. -- Katherine Moennig
Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only one to have thought that the United States government has no business delivering mail. -- Thomas Mallon
I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store. -- Michael Gambon
Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own. -- Hank Johnson
The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up. -- Thomas Sowell
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now. -- Lord Byron
From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war. -- Margot Asquith
Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry - not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger. -- Tom Colicchio
My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.' -- Moby
I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store. -- Dave Mustaine
The Net is not television. It is the finest direct-marketing mechanism in the history of mankind. It is direct mail with free stamps, and it allows you to create richer and deeper relationships than you've ever been able to create before. -- Seth Godin
When thousands of men and women work full time but need food stamps to put food on their tables, when they can't get health benefits, when they can't get paid sick days, then we must do whatever we can to stand up for them. -- Charles B. Rangel
Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives. -- Christine Pelosi
Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps. -- Jim DeMint
You can't just pillory the teachers unions and sound the free market trumpet. We must visit the failing schools. We must talk to the mother who desperately wants more for her child and offer a constructive way out. We can't simply lambaste... food stamps or decry dependency. -- Frank Wolf
In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long as they don't get married, she gets maybe 20 or 30 thousand dollars in pre-tax benefits in terms of food stamps, health care and housing allowance. -- Foster Friess
I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945. -- Hilary Mantel
To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he's better than them - though they certainly season it with some racism. You know, he's that lucky black man who actually appeals to the populace. He's that elitist who got himself off food stamps and into Harvard. -- John Ridley
Each servant stamps the reader with a look. -- John Ashbery
The 50s were great because I collected stamps. -- Robert Plant
Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps -- Chuck D
You won't see my parents honored on any stamps. -- Lou Reed
The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me. -- Moon Unit Zappa
If you need food stamps, you should meet the criteria. -- Bob Goodlatte
If poor people want food stamps, they should become massive corporations. -- Stephen Colbert
Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby. -- Penn Jillette
Anytime you cut food stamps, it naturally affects sales. People spend less. -- John Catsimatidis
When Ronald Reagan became president, students could no longer get food stamps. -- Julianne Malveaux
I've licked stamps who were more excited than you by that kiss. -- Julie James
I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult. -- Moby
Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap -- George Bernard Shaw
I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No. -- Craig T. Nelson
Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps? -- Dolores Huerta
Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The people definitely shape the two, put stamps and classify mainstream and underground music. -- Kendrick Lamar
It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low. -- Patricia Schroeder
I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to kneel or buy stamps from him or what. -- Rick Riordan
[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them. -- Linus Pauling
Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps. -- Patricia Ireland
Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will. -- Friedrich Schiller
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen. -- George Bernard Shaw
Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make. -- Elizabeth Bishop
It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps. -- Tony Benn
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As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something. -- Jean Pigozzi
my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II. -- Charles Bukowski
I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps. -- Sally Ride
Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads. -- Howard Nemerov
The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps. -- Eli Broad
Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse. -- Eudora Welty
Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. -- Abbie Hoffman
Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
I'm not living off of any taxpayer money. If I am - if it's food stamps, it's a temporary resource. -- Nadya Suleman
The average bloke . . . hates and fears all freedom, not only for others but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible. -- Robert A. Heinlein
What's a whore? She's like the guilty counterfeited coin Which whosoe're first stamps it brings in trouble all that receive it. -- John Webster
The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps. -- Johann Hari
It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much. -- Mick Jagger
I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps. -- Newt Gingrich
Rich kids who write songs about food stamps always piss me off. I'm not going to write any songs about that, either. -- Neko Case
As hipster chicks age, and their skin starts to sag, tramp stamps sink below waistbands, like the sun slipping into the sea... -- Dana Gould
Cause I'm Black and I'm proud I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps -- Chuck D
Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards. -- J. B. Morton
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. -- Quentin Crisp
It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part. -- Friedrich Schiller
Well, everybody does something, some people race cars, others collect stamps, I find tai chi to be philosophically, aesthetically, physically and spiritually fascinating. -- Lou Reed
He has a chance to make somebody move over on Mount Rushmore. He's working for his place on the coins and the postage stamps. -- Henry Graff
I really don't know where the independent fits in anymore when twenty-five million dollar movies are considered straight-to-video fare. We're like penny postage stamps. -- Kurt Voss
Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next. -- Nathanael Emmons
The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people to food stamps. -- Jesse Jackson
And what will you do now? You'll collect loves Like stamps. You've got doubles and no one Will trade you and you have the damaged ones. -- Yehuda Amichai
There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood. -- Aaron Hill
If somebody stamps on your head in that way, you wouldn't say, 'thank you very much' and turn the other cheek. Only Jesus Christ did that. -- Arsene Wenger
Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced to resort to food stamps. -- Thomas Sowell
To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
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The post office is raising the price of stamps again. I heard that and said to myself, 'If only there was an inexpensive electronic way of communicating.' -- David Letterman
Contrary to what President Obama said in his inaugural address, going on Medicare and food stamps does not strengthen us. Just ask people who are fourth-generation welfare recipients. -- Mark Skousen
Conservatives are, I think, correct to highlight family stability as a fundamental issue that goes to the welfare of children as much as food stamps or anything else. -- Nicholas Kristof
Former Governor [Jeb] Bush calling for an end all together of the Supplemental Nutrition Program, or what some people call food stamps program, as part of an overhaul. -- Melissa Harris-Perry
By doing good with his money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven. -- John Rutledge
Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will. -- Harold B. Lee
Barack Obama seems intent on enrolling more people on food stamps. Mitt Romney's focus is going to be on generating more jobs that will make food-stamps unnecessary for them. -- Mike Huckabee
Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which is a big element to the program. -- Eleanor Clift
I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions." -- Peter Webber
Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine, but religious figures on stamps are offensive. -- Don Feder
One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never meet. -- Mary Blakely

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