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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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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The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the artist today perfects the means suited to his particular work.
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Let us be clear: the Yemeni revolution has already brought internal stability to a state riddled with war and conflict.
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When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.
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Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the European money-trust intervened, it would have no doubt become an established institution.
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I do feel like once you know you are someone who is in the world and there are other countries and cultures, that stays with you and your decision-making forever.
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I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die.
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The purse strings tie us to our kind.
