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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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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I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
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Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.
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Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it.
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We look for good on earth and cannot recognize it when met.
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Acknowledging the realities of structural and institutional racism is hard for conscionable white people. It might ask them to consider how they're personally implicated, or have gained from systems that have oppressed and rejected others. It might require them to take a next step. It's easier to say, "I don't see race," or to dismiss the Black Lives Matter movement as structureless and theatrical than to embrace and promote its most basic premise, which is to believe that black lives have worth.
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We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.
