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«When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick.»
Author: Bill Lemley | Keywords: check, measure up, yardstick
«Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic.»
«Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely»
«The first time you buy a house you think how pretty it is and sign the check. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.»
«We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.»
«Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous»
«Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.»
«Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic. [Miranda]»
«We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business»
«There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign dealings are an open book, generally a check book.»

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