Walter Bagehot Quotes
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.
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All of the land of Israel is ours.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.
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When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
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There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.
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What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV is that when you think 'Christian,' you think 'goody two shoes' - they have to look a certain way and do certain things - and it's just not true.
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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
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God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.
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I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
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Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.
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When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.
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Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.
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I'm not a guy that really likes to pile onto somebody. Doesn't really matter who it is.
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I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.
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For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?
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Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.
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I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.
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I have gained so much more from my experiences of being open and loving humanity rather than being jaded and being closed-off.
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The purse strings tie us to our kind.
