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The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'
Thomas Sowell
Man
Vote
Rights
Old
Will
Giving
Politician
Has-Been
Some
About
Give
Moreover
He
French
French Fries
Him
Reader
How
Fish
Been
His
Versus
Fries
Updated
Wants
Old Adage
Declare
Ask
Teaching
Who
Among
Basic
Things
Sauce
Adage
Basic Rights
I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'
Kamala Harris
Old
Country
Believe
California
Goes
Old Adage
Adage
I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what I decided I would do is write a novel based on my dissertation research.
David Liss
You
Old
Research
Dissertation
Would
Write
Knew
Know
Decided
Old Adage
Century
Should
Novel
Based
Adage
Britain
It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will fly it.
Gordon Bethune
You
Old
Fly
Will
Airline
Eat
Cheap
Nobody
Make
Old Adage
Pizza
Adage
It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Harold W. Dodds
Best
Old
Insecurity
Our
Way
Secure
Never
Safe
Force
Spur
Old Adage
Us
Requires
Each
Each One
Adage
Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! The America I know doesn't make excuses.
Mia Love
You
Progress
Old
Face
Nation
Difficulties
Our
Both
Individually
True
Excuses
Know
Make
Still
Families
America
May
Regardless
Cannot
Old Adage
Communities
Adage
I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.
Mike Quigley
Politics
Best
Old
Sunlight
Longtime
Particularly
Old Adage
Believer
Adage
The old adage is true, people will only be as good to you as you are to yourself. They will follow your example, and those who don't will be left by the wayside.
Niecy Nash
Good
You
Yourself
People
Old
Will
Example
Those
Wayside
Follow
Only
True
Left
Old Adage
Your
Who
Adage
I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.
Paul Thomas Anderson
Hope
Great
You
People
Old
Subscribe
Never
Involves
Audience
Get
Old Adage
Then
Really
Should
Film
Second
Adage
There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.
Terri Windling
World
Old
Before
Seven
Plots
About
Shakespeare
Only
How
Done
Old Adage
Them
Adage