The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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Ideas without execution are hallucinations. ~Thomas A. Edison
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you. ~Bryce Harper
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. ~Emily Bronte
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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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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do. ~Halle Berry
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone and avoided it as far as possible; he didn't really want to become any better acquainted with himself. He knew that if he wanted to show his talents to best advantage, he needed to strike sparks off other people to fan the flames of warmth and exuberance in his heart. On his own he was frosty, no use to himself at all, like a match left lying in its box. ~Stefan Zweig
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What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations. ~Harry A. Blackmun
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