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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.


Hubert Humphrey

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VACLAV KLAUS The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We're always taught that God wants us to always only say "I can't do this without You God" , "Whatev...
C. JOYBELL C. You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
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HUBERT HUMPHREY Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
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JUSTIN PYFROM Elective office and public service are obviously something that have long ties with my family, and s...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
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TRENT FRANKS Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
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BARRY M. GOLDWATER Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond.
ANGELICA HOPES The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY Nature never wears a mean appearance. When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
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J.A. REDMERSKI I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
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LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
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GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
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GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
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TUCKER CARLSON The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxie...
WILLIAM FALCONER I have never wanted to be a politician, and I never had the desire until recently.
DOUG HOFFMAN The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
JOHN MAJOR Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the...
DAISAKU IKEDA You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. A bride never forgets her wedding ornaments!
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Oh, I should probably set a few ground rules before we do this.”
“Oh?” I turn at the wais...
J.A. REDMERSKI This is a season I will never forget and I hope everybody in baseball never forgets.
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GARY F EVANS... Those people who taught Hubert Humphrey a lesson will still be enjoying the Nixon Supreme Court when...
RUSSELL BAKER I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I don't see myself in any way in elective office.
CONDOLEEZZA RICE I never worked in an office in my life.
JACK VANCE A thief stops stealing when he dies
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OGDEN NASH I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I...
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We are the choices we make.
PATRICK NESS The fire of hope never dies.
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JAMES L. BUCKLEY We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA He's gawking at me when I open the door.
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CALVIN COOLIDGE it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication.
DEYTH BANGER I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure.
DEYTH BANGER

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HUBERT MARTIN It was a slow fall, through warm experiences and good laughs. It didn't even feel like love until I ...
HUBERT MARTIN They surrounded me, bare me. Their fingers like tentacles and their desires like knives. Their finge...
HUBERT MARTIN On these days, I've never felt so hollow. Recollecting the many pieces of me that were lost in past ...
HUBERT MARTIN Adventures kept hidden, words kept silent. You became my greatest secret. And when you left, no one ...
HUBERT MARTIN I wanted to know every story behind the scars on her curves. I wanted to decipher the whispers hidde...
HUBERT MARTIN I was burdened with an ever-growing heart on the verge of decay. To save myself, I had to give many ...
HUBERT MARTIN I always thought time was the most valuable currency, but I realized the people we spent our time on...
HUBERT MARTIN All my past heartache and pain suddenly made sense. That was who I would not be to the person who de...
HUBERT MARTIN It was the end for something. It was the beginning for another. But in reality it just fell in the m...
HUBERT MARTIN You are whole today, looking back at fragments of the past. Such a hollow foundation for such a powe...
HUBERT MARTIN I wanted nothing more than her attention. Her thoughts filled with me. Her eyes lost in my image. I ...
HUBERT MARTIN My body held on though I held snapped threads in my hands and patches of my flesh were missing entir...
HUBERT MARTIN She had the blood of the sun running through her veins and the dust of stars at her fingertips. Her ...
HUBERT MARTIN And though they fell as ashes, their shadows drifted as leaves.
HUBERT MARTIN I realized the world around me was fragmented and broken... I had to be gentle enough not to scrape ...
HUBERT MARTIN He spoke in polished honesty free of liar's filth. He said the hardest words with an unshakable voic...
HUBERT MARTIN Her words were slickly lacquered, dripping with venom that singed the air as they fell. She traced h...
HUBERT MARTIN She was the half-whispers born from half-thoughts, the half-breaths of dying half-hearts.
HUBERT MARTIN When it came to her, I became an indomitable warrior. My muscles became her shield and my lungs aide...
HUBERT MARTIN Hoping fast that my arrow's flight is steady and true,
I need this, I need my arrow to find yo...
HUBERT MARTIN My heart may be bruised and scarred, bleeding slow drip-drip with every thump and every other thump-...
HUBERT MARTIN Whether it was in the maze of my fantastical mind or the allure of her gossamer eyes, they took me t...
HUBERT MARTIN She is beyond any mortal structure of words, yet she inspires the effort to try anyway.
HUBERT MARTIN She was the sort of girl who flooded my five senses. Her voice was melody to my ears, her taste gave...
HUBERT MARTIN That's what really broke me, she was better than any fantasy I could hope to imagine. I've spent my ...
HUBERT MARTIN I always deemed myself a one chance person, if you hurt me or betray me, then I'm done with you. As ...
HUBERT MARTIN She speaks in heartbeats and the rises of her chest, words forever seared in thoughts that will neve...
HUBERT MARTIN He sang softly, less with words and more with thought. She cradled his head, stitching together his ...
HUBERT MARTIN These places I traveled through, they were a lot like the people I knew. Some abodes I muddled about...
HUBERT MARTIN In a way, she became the sand to my hourglass... she made watching that trickling sand a little more...
HUBERT MARTIN She was carmine shadows reflecting from my crimson words. Every pulse sent a velvet ripple through t...
HUBERT MARTIN As I watched the sky morph shades of amber and amethyst, of fiery orange and smoldering pink, I alwa...
HUBERT MARTIN That last bit of hope always lingered as a stubborn thread. Every time I would try to cut it I would...
HUBERT MARTIN I spill my emotions and hopes on pieces of paper and pixels of screens, combining and creating, merg...
HUBERT MARTIN