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Last Names Starting With T

Take your work seriously, but never take yourself seriously, and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
      —Booth Tarkington, novelist
 

The problem with people who have no vices, is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
      —Elizabeth Taylor, actress
 

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
      —Shirley Temple, actress
 

The last 29 days of the month are always the hardest.
      —Nikola Tesla, Physicist, electrical engineer, rergarded as one of the most important inventors in history; known for his contributions to the discipline of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th century
 

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
      —Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister
 

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry, and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
      —Lewis Thomas, molecular biologist
 

As your attorney, it's my duty to inform you that it's not important that you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying me so much money. What's important is that you continue to do so.
      —Hunter S. Thompson's lawyer in the novel "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
 

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
      —Lily Tomlin, actress and comedian
 

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.
      —Harry S. Truman, U.S. President
 

Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, 'On one hand...on the other...'
      —Harry Truman, U.S. President
 

If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
      —Donald Trump, business executive
 

A dream that comes only once is oftenest only an idle accident, and hasn't any message, But the recurrent dream is quite another matter--oftener than not it has come on business.
      —Mark Twain, humorist, novelist, writer, lecturer
 

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress--but I repeat myself.
      —Mark Twain, humorist, novelist, writer, lecturer
 

Contrariwise,' 'If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
      —Tweedledee in "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
 

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