Joseph J. Ellis Quotes
Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.
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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.
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Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.
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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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Validation is easy - you run your site through a validator, and it's either valid or it isn't. The rest of the stuff, such as whether my logo or the biggest headline should be the h1 in my HTML, isn't so easy and is subject to interpretation.
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No matter who we are or where we live, we all share a basic concern for the safety and well-being of our young people. Their welfare is the most telling measure of our nation's success - and their potential is the most promising element of its future. It is up to us - all of us - to safeguard that future.
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Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
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The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
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The best thing about living... Is the chance to keep on doing it!
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Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
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With him Kosovo has lost a historic leader who devoted his life to protecting and promoting the rights of the people of Kosovo.
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I believe the happiest moments of your life are yet to come.
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He got himself involved. It wasn't so much anything we did specifically ? we did really the same things we've been doing. He found ways to get his hands on the ball.
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Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.
