#bough

Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

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The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves. ↗

— Ben Stein

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We have investigative staff who are charged by law and this committee under the Constitution of the United States has a responsibility, taxpayers' money, and an agency which we fund from the government, they bought weapons, we believe and we think that - I don't know who did what. ↗

— John Mica

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The big things I've had are things I bought myself. ↗

— Balthazar Getty

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Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did. ↗

— Glenn Frey

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I bought a railroad during this period of time. ↗

— Bill Janklow

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I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy. ↗

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

#bought #first #i #learn #order

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. ↗

— Bernard Manning

#batteries #bought #i #included #kids

But I said wait a minute, I'm going to get a computer, I can do this as well as anybody else. So I did some studying so I knew what kind of boards to get to put a PC together. But there was a guy sitting there with Apple. I said, 'what's that?' and he goes, 'Apple with 128k, it's all built into the box,' and I bought it. That was my first computer. ↗

— Sinbad

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I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected. ↗

— Louise Brown

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