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I think it has held us up. They have given us so... BETH EDMUNDSON ROXANE GAY We are still in close contact with the Red Sox and they have told us they will do whatever they can ... GREGG CLIFTON From the unruly crowd of demands, we must chose those that are important to us. JIM GENOVESE We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us ANNE SOPHIE SWETCHINE We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by the... US DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE I'll tell you what: The crowd helped us out tonight. They were great. It was kind of crazy in there,... MARK WALTERS The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreason... US CONSTITUTION No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor ... US CONSTITUTION Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise... 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fruit of passive-aggressive people. These people resist demands by indirect tactics. They will not t... 
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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and... 
Life has its demands from every one of us who live on planet earth. 
I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not to do what we want bu... 
We live in an age of technology and science that demands proof, and yet we desire mystery. But when ... 
Not by appointment do we meet delight
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In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physi... 
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands. 
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands. 
The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us... than the need for any extern... 
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All of us are crazy in one way or another. 
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We love films because they makes us feel something. They speak to our desires, which are never small... 
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeki... 
The Wise
(Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay;
But in their books, as from their gr... 
Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse? 
We're tired of begging others to do for us what we have the capacity to pool our resources - intelle... 
We're tired of begging others to do for us what we have the capacity to pool our resources - intelle... 
Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an a... 
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As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of the... 
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, fill... 
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what ... 
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Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are ple... 
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But it certainly isn't something that rose to the level that Caspar Weinberger alleged that it did. 
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