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The day has to come when it's not a surprise that a woman has a powerful position.
Come Day Position Powerful
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The secret is not for you to venture into business because you think people are making money. You need to do your research. You also need to have an understanding of finance.

Secret Venture Business Making money
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I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I'd rather work until 6 or 7.

Came Conclusion Decided Father
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The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

About Concentrated Fact Find
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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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I think Americans are not guilty for 9/11; I think President Bush is not guilty for 9/11.

American Bush Guilty I Think
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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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We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

Flat Flat Out Kids Need
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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 is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Exact Greatness All Nature
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Always Crushed Dangerous Enemies
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Betrays He His Industry
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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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Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Against Competing Divorced Facts
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Cannot Constitution Eternal Forge
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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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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Fatal Indifference Nothing Religion
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Among Cannot Corrupt Exist
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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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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
Anything Charge Enjoy Meetings
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.

Look Meaning Weigh Words
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
Basic Best Decide Most
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Choice Consists Friends Happiness
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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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He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

Adversity Knows Met Own
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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

Eloquence Same Speak Talking
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Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

Girl Grand Like Pianos
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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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You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.

Case Congress Impression Know
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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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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 keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

Beginning Bits And Pieces Dozens Every
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On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

Family Following Give Healthy
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My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.

Angels Brother Cause Death
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

Bored Happiness Happy Here
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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

Editors Formed Ideals Never
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The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

Applied Clerk Doctor Get
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Away Ever Given Nothing
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Because Believe Christianity Else
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Cut Deserts Down Educator
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

Another Balance Bit Else
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I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

Absolutely Actor Believe Bleed
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Another Houses Laws Lean
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Empire Go Great Ill
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Cannot Country Liberty Nor
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Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

Arts Begins Civilization Cultivation
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There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

Nothing Often Powerful Strange
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