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My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha. B. R. Ambedkar

Science, Religion, Words, Equality, Said

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own. John Wanamaker

Snow, You, Own, Your, Like, Cannot

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. John James Audubon

Man, Children, Environmental, World, Who

The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines. Michael Eric Dyson

History, Politics, Religion, Black

Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever. Rumi

Heart, Simple, Earth, Sunlight, Forever

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? Dale Carnegie

Ideas, Stand, Book, You, Rules, Like

My bedroom was filled with reading material: books salvaged from dustbins, books borrowed from friends, books with missing pages, books found in the street, abandoned, unreadable, torn, scribbled on, unloved, unwanted and dismissed. My bedroom was the Battersea Dogs' Home of books. Christopher Fowler

Home, Reading, Friends, Street, Bedroom

If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression. Austan Goolsbee

Great, Depression, Money, People, You

When you're in a slump, you do something different, just to try it. I remember one time I was in a slump, and I borrowed one of Henry Aaron's bats and hit two homers. I used my own bats the next night. I just needed a change. Joe Torre

Change, Time, Night, You, Remember, Try

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again. Barack Obama

Future, Best, Doing, Choose, America

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed. Benjamin Franklin

Wife, Danger, Wallet, He, Too, Them

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. Voltaire

Nothing, Imitation, Most, Original

Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them. Ferdinand Marcos

People, Independence, Political, Never

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar. Guy Fieri

Trying, Penny, Candy, Worth, Back, Kid

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that. Agatha Christie

Live, Time, Waiting, Now, Go, Will

I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt. Madison Smartt Bell

Sunrise, Stone, Copy, Early, Rome, Flag

'Something Borrowed' was initially titled 'Rolling the Dice,' but my editor said it sounded like a men's gambling memoir. Emily Giffin

Men, Gambling, Said, Dice, Like, Rolling

I don't think I missed a single picture Billie Dove ever made. I was crazy for her. I tried to do my hair like her, and eventually, I borrowed her name. Billie Holiday

Crazy, Hair, Name, Think, Picture, Her

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects. Noam Chomsky

Responsibility, Money, Plant, Borrowing

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. Warren Bennis

People, Ideas, Content, Standing, Out

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. Thomas Babington Macaulay

Knowledge, Great, Science, Country, May

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here. Alan Greenspan

Money, Day, End, Think, Problem, View

The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I'm such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days. John le Carre

Character, People, Now, Person, Personal

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. Walter Benjamin

Death, Authority, Everything, Tell, He

That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends. Eddie Redmayne

Life, Family, I Am, My Life, Reality, Go

These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day. Steven Squyres

Time, Day, Past, Push, Every Day, You

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