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Charles Schumer

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KATE MIDDLETON All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
HENRY HON I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n...
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GARY F EVANS... I saw one movie in theatres in the first 18 years of my life.
DAVID A. R. WHITE We thought of her with Barbra Streisand, Barbara Boxer, Rob Reiner, Charles Schumer, even. Now I see...
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JOHN H. GROBERG Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
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DEYTH BANGER No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...
ANGELA CARTER I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
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ASHLEY DAVIES No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'...
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ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
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GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
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GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
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ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
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ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
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CHARLES SCHUMER If you refuse to talk about already decided cases, the burden, sir, is on you.
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CHARLES SCHUMER is good evidence that Mr. Fitzgerald is, indeed, following this investigation to its logical conclus...
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CHARLES SCHUMER The echoes of then-Judge Thomas's empty reassurances that he was a mainstream jurist are ringing in ...
CHARLES SCHUMER not a panacea, but it's a giant step forward.
CHARLES SCHUMER Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tort...
CHARLES SCHUMER Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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CHUCK SCHUMER The Internet in the 21st Century is as important to our future as highways were in the 20th Century....
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CHUCK SCHUMER if need be, take the vice president to the wood shed.
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CHUCK SCHUMER To those who say ideology doesn't matter, they should take their argument to President Bush.
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CHUCK SCHUMER I for one have woken up in the middle of the night thinking about it, wondering how I should vote, ....
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CHUCK SCHUMER office buildings are our factories. They are at the center of economic growth and job creation.
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CHARLES DANCE No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
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CHARLES SPURGEON Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure...
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CHARLES SPURGEON None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
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CHARLES SPURGEON Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
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CHARLES DICKENS In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
CHARLES EAMES We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
CHARLES EAMES It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
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CHARLES EAMES To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matt...
CHARLES EAMES It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
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CHARLES EAMES Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
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CHARLES SIMIC Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
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CHARLES BABBAGE Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, re...
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CHARLES BABBAGE In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
CHARLES BABBAGE The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almo...
CHARLES BABBAGE The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
CHARLES BABBAGE Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the...
CHARLES BABBAGE At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes...
CHARLES BABBAGE A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine i...
CHARLES BABBAGE If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is...
CHARLES SPURGEON There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, yo...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
CHARLES LINDBERGH I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to h...
CHARLES STANLEY