How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic... ODO SIMON AGBO If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. CHINESE PROVERB We worked all week on ripping, stripping and picking. We knew how good we could be. We just had to b... BRANDON PERKINS We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events ... TONY ROBBINS We know we can (win), ... although they (US) will make an effort to beat us and show us how they hav... JARED BORGETTI We're balanced and deep. We don't have great size, but I think we will be all right on the boards if... DAVE JOSEPH We do not need a heavy theoretical thumb on the scales. What's important is how the traditional ... DIANE S. SYKES We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that... ANTHONY ROBBINS Everybody wants a solution on how to help their dogs, but we can't really see the problem until ... CESAR MILLAN The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN Well, that's what life is - this collection of extraordinarily ordinary moments. We just need to... ALEXANDER PAYNE We pride ourselves on how well we play defense. DON ECKERLE A house takes on the character of its inhabitants; a homeowner takes on the characteristics of the h... CLIFFORD COHEN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON we just don't know her background on judicial restraint and on the Constitution. SAM BROWNBACK We're feeling really good about ourselves, defensively, offensively and on the mound. We just need f... HECTOR RODRIGUEZ How well do we actually know ourselves? Can we dare to say that we really know someone, like really,... NICO J. GENES If we can map the retina, that will help us understand how it functions in vision, as well as devise... SEBASTIAN SEUNG We must all die!
All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when,
Nor how, so we die well; and... FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Most of us don't think about miracles that we could possibly do. We don't have a vocabulary ... BRUCE WILKINSON We didn't represent ourselves very well at all. We didn't wrestle badly, we just didn't do as well a... JOE GORDILLO It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to ... GEORGE WASHINGTON I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about h... RUPERT EVERETT We really, truly need very, very sound biblical teaching by some of the best biblical teachers aroun... PAUL CHAMBERLAIN You can receive $900 or even $1,000 but when you don't appreaciate this money they don't have value. DEYTH BANGER But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we... DAN RATHER I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our... 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CHARLES BUKOWSKI I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our f... PATRICIA IRELAND I think the judges really saw how well the three of us work together as a team. We worked really har... ALANNAH PRATT Twenty-seven years incarcerated, his jailer became his best friend. So if you need an example on how... JIM BROWN If the seed doesn't get planted, it can't become a toxic thornbush. We must guard our minds and our ... CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister. TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma... TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th... TRISHA LEAVER We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot com... NICK HORNBY Beetee's glad we find the plan hard to follow, because then our enemies will, too. Like your e... SUZANNE COLLINS All we could think about was our grandparents and how they worked too hard to let it just fall down. EMMA JEAN TUCKER Most of us think we know ourselves pretty well. Our hopes, dreams, desires.. We cling tightly to thi... MEREDITH GREY On rare occasion we are granted the gift of seeing how far we have come; just how much we have heale... RENAE A. SAUTER It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows. DAVID CRYSTAL If we don't know life, how can we know death? CONFUCIUS We felt if we worked with him, get him to eat on his own and if we could, then we could get him on e... ANDREA ZLAVIS We are reminded how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. So, all the people yo... HAL SUTTON This is something we could do ourselves. We did it for the tsunami, but these are people in our own ... BRENDA EGENLAUF Our logistics worked well generally, up until 2005. We couldn't imagine how something that big and c... JACK MCGUIRE If our focus is on how we are supposed to feel then we deny ourselves the joy of freedom in how we t... MISHI MCCOY We played really good today. If we play well and how we're supposed to, we can make a run at this. ALEX DELPIOMBO The race factor was just a minuscule part of what I was doing with Eminem. It was really about the m... DR. DRE It is very stupid. How can we achieve useful reform (of the judicial system) if we don't even know t... LIU RENWEN We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more o... ANTHONY KIEDIS Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn't bad... We ju... PETER SENGE It is up to each one of us to immunize ourselves from any disabling bolts of anger and defend oursel... KILROY J. OLDSTER Self esteem is about how we rate ourselves internally.Self confidence is about how much we trust our... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won't have much effect... STEPHEN HAWKING How can we understand the world and the universe when we haven't even understood ourselves? ANTHONY T. HINCKS And when I saw you kissing that girl My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered And ... KATE NASH The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves ... 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its blood?
How can we... ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER We can actually work out exactly where they're going, how they're moving, and how this movement is a... JULIE STEELE Huge remittances could cause huge appreciation to the currencies. We need to ask ourselves, how do w... DILIP RATHA We all need to give ourselves permission to feel our true feelings, even if those are decidedly dark... LIZZIE VELáSQUEZ We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't. ALAN GREENSPAN We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve. BILL GATES Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go. BERNARD MALAMUD I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway... LYNN NOTTAGE Somewhere in the ruins above them, the cats are howling. ANTHONY DOERR Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media... AMY JO MARTIN We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each ot... HERBIE HANCOCK That's done. We don't need to be under the radar anymore; we need to be out there. It worked out rea... BILL SELF As we worked with ETS to preview the test, we really liked that it's a performance-based test and al... ANITA GIVENS Coming out of spring we knew exactly how good we could be, CARNELL WILLIAMS Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the f... ARTHUR C. CLARKE How much do we owe the people we love? Now I would add a follow-up question: How do we cope with the... ANN PACKER We have not defended how we need to defend. We've been too soft on the ball. ... They kicked out but... FLIP SAUNDERS The big thing was how focused we were for this week. We knew it would be a good game and we prepared... GREG MCANALLY If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the... M. SCOTT PECK We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we’re innate... SHARON SALZBERG Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ... AND CITY
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