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I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Thomas Jefferson

Book, America, Become

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
H. L. Mencken

Election, Advance, Goods

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West

Office, Virtue, Reward

How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
Erma Bombeck

Next, Week, Buy

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Thomas A. Edison

Success, Won, Sell

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
Soren Kierkegaard

Age, End, Everything

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
Thomas Carlyle

Strange, Gift, Highest

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
John W. Gardner

Government, May, Two

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
Fulton J. Sheen

Life, Thought, Deed

Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.
Maxwell Maltz

Life, Yourself, Important

NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.
Jim Henson

Black, Trying, Remember

The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies; and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan.
Anne Lamott

Great, Team, Wait

I'm not married, I frequently use my debit card to buy things that cost less than three dollars, and my bedroom is so untidy it looks like vandals ransacked the Anthropologie sale section. I'm kind of a mess.
Mindy Kaling

Married, Less, Three

Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they're purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, let's get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of - innocent citizens.
John Mica

Government, Justice, Mean

I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.
Martha Plimpton

Let's create a regime that makes sale of bullets to anybody not licensed to carry a gun illegal, makes resale illegal, micro-stamps bullets so they can be traced. No Second Amendment issues here. This would have a remarkable impact on both violence and the capacity to solve shooting crimes.
Eliot Spitzer

Here, Violence, Makes

The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.
James Cash Penney

Bring, Customer, Repeat

I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.
James Cash Penney

Long, Nothing, Short

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
Tom Peters

Success, Business, Company

I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
Madonna Ciccone

Spending, Careful, Decadent

Number one, you can sell before you buy. I call it reverse e-commerce. You take a picture, you list it for sale, you sell it, you collect the revenue, then you go buy it and send it to the customer.
Marc Ostrofsky

Before, Picture, Call

CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of sale on to memory sticks, and sell you one if you forgot your own.
Richard Stallman

Time, Write, Memory

Plan the sale when you plan the ad.
Leo Burnett

I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.
Piers Anthony

Book, Self, Free

Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.
Piers Anthony

Writing, Before, Keep

To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
Ian MacKaye

Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.
Norman Ralph Augustine

Books, Soon, Market

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.
Ken Burns

History, Made, Deal

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.
Thomas Wolfe

Good, Business, Book

With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue.
Anne Campbell

Money, Hope, Important

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