John C. Danforth Quotes
I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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Some have been ensnared in the net of excessive debt. The net of interest holds them fast, requiring them to sell their time and energies to meet the demands of creditors. They surrender their freedom, becoming slaves to their own extravagance.
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In America, we then made a commitment, particularly after World War II with the GI Bill, to massively expand our commitment to college education, and that meant we had more engineers and we had more scientists and that meant we had better technology, which meant that we were more productive and we could succeed in the global marketplace.
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We are robust when errors in the representation of the unknown and understanding of random effects do not lead to adverse outcomes -fragile otherwise.
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I have heard a lot of people talk about this grind of series television. I have not seen it yet.
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Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the shelters of New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere while the buildings collapse overhead and burst into flames, and dead bodies hurtle about and, when it is over for the day or the night, emerge in the rubble to find some of their dear ones mangled, their homes gone, their hospitals, churches, schools demolished - only after that gruesome experience will we realize what we are inflicting on the people of Indochina.
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I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.
