Susan Davis (Susan Carol Alpert Davis) Quotes
We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.
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You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.
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The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
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There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.
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I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
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I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.
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I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.
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I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.
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the urgent crowds out the essential.
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I go to the first tee scared to death every day. The peaks do not seem to last as long as the valleys in this game.
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If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism - no matter how certain we are that it is justified.
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Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.
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Liberia has to take primary responsibility for its own reform agenda. But our resources are limited. We have to attract the private sector to get jobs to our people that will enable us to raise the government revenue, but to do that we have to build infrastructure. It's a very complex problem of development we are facing here.
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We know what the writing on the wall is, ... We need to make sure we continue to pay down the debt. That's been one of our objectives all the way along the line. So it's not a retreat at all.
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They (FEMA officials) just don't have their act together, ... They didn't know where their evacuees are; they didn't know how many each state had. Those are basic questions. You need competence at the top to manage these large-scale disasters.
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Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.
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I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.
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I know that the Bible is a special kind of book, but I find it as seductive as any other. If I am not careful, I can begin to mistake the words on the page for the realities they describe. I can begin to love the dried ink marks on the page more than I love the encounters that gave rise to them.
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We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.
