You may have heard this expression: You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink.

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The clowns can make a handsome living without ever getting on a horse or bull.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

If Robert Reich wants to praise Ford for his relentless effort to reduce labor costs, drive his competitors out of business, make horse-drawn transport obsolete, and become fabulously wealthy by offering the best valued products to the largest number of customers, sign me up.

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Thus, cars make obsolete the horse economy, including livery stables, wheelwrights, Stanhope manufacturing, muleteers, and coachmen.

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While most other rich countries chose to make betting on horse-racing a state monopoly, Britain legalised private bookies in the 1960s.

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