Quotes 541 till 560 of 732.
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The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation.
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The system was aided by the Church, whose natural interests allied it more to the great than to the meek.
A Distant Mirror -
The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.
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The two-martinis-for-lunch bunch would love for us to fight each other over the resources they have made scarce.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
Barbara Bush: A Memoir -
The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country!
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.
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The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
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The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
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Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill.
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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
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There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
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