What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. ~Robert Scheer
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The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. ~Anne O'Hare McCormick
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. ~Sigmund Freud
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions. ~Aristotle
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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I adore clothes, they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished. ~Anne Robinson
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. ~English Proverb
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Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole. ~Peter Thiel
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I have the courage of my convictions. ~Brigitte Bardot
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I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling. ~Hugh Jackman
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I am usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl. ~Hope Davis
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"Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded. ~Cinda Williams Chima
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. ~Hans Kung
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. ~Antoni Tapies
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond. ~Ken Follett
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I am kind of a grinder. I am a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights. ~Zach Johnson
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You have got to have a problem that you want to solve, a wrong that you want to right. ~Steve Jobs
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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