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run out of

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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. W. H. Auden

The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas. Boris Johnson

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them. Margaret Thatcher

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. Margaret Thatcher

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam. J. G. Ballard

The nightingale will run out of songs before a woman runs out of conversation. Spanish Proverb

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