Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Congress can protect small businesses by providing effective oversight over SBA policies and make sure they take into account the needs of small businesses while also protecting taxpayer dollars. Congress also needs to make sure that new banking regulations do not make it more costly for community banks to lend to small businesses.
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To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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In terms of me being a Christian, going to Israel was really cool. Going to the West Bank, Bethlehem, floating in the Dead Sea - that was great for me.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
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School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
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My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary fiction, as well as nonfiction. Author-wise, I'm a fan of Stephen King, Lauren Beukes, Robert McCammon, Raymond Chandler, Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker and Gail Simone, among many others.
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If, when I leave this earth, I'm remembered for 'Fargo,' so be it. But I think old Marge Gunderson is gonna get a run for her money with Olive Kittredge.
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I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say.
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If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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As for myself, I was trying to see if there was a way I could take meaning, which was at the same time vision, and not have the vision be an ornament to meaning. The vision had to be meaning, but it also still had to be vision.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
