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Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections.

Box Cannot Chalk Defeats
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

About Assume Believe Care
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My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.

Alabama Because Crow Democrats
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Barbarians Before Born Civilization
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Agony Blood Cheap Cost
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Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

Baseball Baseball Game Clock Explained
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Considerable Extent Ignorance Just
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Anxious Error General Loudest
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If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?

Life Mean My Life Read
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Because Could Did Greater
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The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Complexity Does Growing Imply
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Act Boundary Feelings Imagination
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Between In My Opinion Justice Liberty
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Fatal Indifference Nothing Religion
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Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

Accounting Balanced Balanced Budget Budget
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Eating Like Read Reflecting
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Delusion Give Liberties Never
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Among Cannot Corrupt Exist
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

Book Books Child Children
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Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.

Accomplished Actually Against Companies
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

Actual Any Case Considerable
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Art Creation Essentially Finished
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Adultery Forgives Gospel Never
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I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.

Being Bright Cliff Considered
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Blatant Could Failure General
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Agreement Little Politics Pulpit
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Founded Frugality Limits Principal
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When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

Roles Society Soldiers Tendency
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The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

Arena Cause Difficult Distant
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Beauties Just Life May
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

Ages Good Illustrate Live
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To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution

Citizen Country Fight Leaders Life
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Accuracy Confidence Had Industry
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Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

Girl Grand Like Pianos
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I sometimes use a girl singer the way Henny Youngman uses his violin - as a bridge between one laugh and the next.

Between Bridge Girl Laugh
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I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.

Covet Fortune Images Interest
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It is time we had democratic socialism for working families, not just Wall Street billionaires.

Billionaires Democratic Families Socialism
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Democratic socialism means that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.

Create Democratic Economy Means
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

Believes Difficult Necessarily True
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Good environmental policy is good economic policy.
Economic Environmental Good Policy
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I think there are a lot of people who, when they hear the word 'socialist,' get very, very nervous.

Hear Lot Nervous People
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Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.

America Before Citizens Existed
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I remember one time being told I could not play in a basketball game at the College of William and Mary because I was black, even though I was playing with a United States Army team.

Army Basketball Because Being
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We need leadership in this country, which will improve the lives of working families, the children, the elderly, the sick and the poor. We need leadership which brings our people together and makes us stronger.

Brings Children Country Elderly
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The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.

Contain Ensure Federal Financial
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These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

Believe Care Cases Environment
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I like being in control of making all the major decisions pertaining to my projects. That's something that you don't get to do in a group. Everything has to be voted on - every minor decision.

Being Control Decision Every
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In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.

Ever Feel Get Know
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I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

Approach Child Difference Going
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As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.

Black Color Cowboys Expand
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