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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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone. ~Prabal Gurung
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought. ~Dennis Bergkamp
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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Seeing is believing. ~Chinese Proverb
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse. ~Jaron Lanier
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A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. ~Jose Saramago
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it. ~Confucius
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. ~Annie Proulx
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events. ~Lisa Ling
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Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog. ~Robert Fulghum
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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