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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I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change. ~Richard Lamm
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If Barack Obama is elected, I will be moving out of the country. ~Stephen Baldwin
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition. ~Joe Scarborough
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. ~Barack Obama
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught. ~Agnes Repplier
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Seeing is believing. ~Chinese Proverb
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A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
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Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day. ~Stephen King
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Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. ~John Barrasso
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I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to. ~Lou Brock
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I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous. ~Mel Brooks
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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You can't, Brooke, you can't leave. You're mine. ~Katy Evans
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens; men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls. ~Arthur Capper
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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