My subcommittee will be thoroughly investigating this issue and demanding answers from Census officials on allegations that the Census Bureau is changing the wording of survey questions used to determine our nation's annual report on health insurance coverage.


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To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowled...
WILLIAM BLAKE
All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows...
WILLIAM BLAKE
To create a little flower is the labor of ages.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the ...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no pas...
WILLIAM BLAKE
If I'd known I was gonna live this long. I'd have taken better care of myself. Eubie Blake At Age 10...
EUBIE BLAKE
Energy is eternal delight.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Expect poison from standing water.
WILLIAM BLAKE
He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies li...
WILLIAM BLAKE
The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
WILLIAM BLAKE
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Chr...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
WILLIAM BLAKE
This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to be...
WILLIAM BLAKE
To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am...
WILLIAM BLAKE
What is now proved was only once imagined.
WILLIAM BLAKE
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of...
WILLIAM BLAKE
My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, l...
WILLIAM BLAKE
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
WILLIAM BLAKE
I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for man...
WILLIAM BLAKE
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man s; I will not reason and compare: my business i...
WILLIAM BLAKE
He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against t...
WILLIAM BLAKE
You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little ...
WILLIAM BLAKE
O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath...
WILLIAM BLAKE