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I was the first Blunt ever elected to anything.


Roy Blunt


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Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.


Chris Christie


#am #bluntly #brother #children #could

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.


James Thurber


#clear #comedy #done #edge #famous

The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.


Auberon Herbert


#bluntly #ends #enough #exist #force

The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.


Francis Wright


#been #blunted #carried #competition #edge

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.


Richard M. Nixon


#blunt #candid #confidentiality #containing #different

Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.


Barack Obama


#actually #afghanistan #ago #al #attacked

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.


Katherine Fullerton Gerould


#always #blunted #could #edge #fine

I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died.


Jimmy Swaggart


#died #ever #god #gonna #him

Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.


Bryan Davis


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