William Congreve Quotes
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Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.
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Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.
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Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants' rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.
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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
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The administration is manufacturing a crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security.
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I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
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I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
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My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
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John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.
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I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.
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I am a common man. Why do I need security?
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If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience, and on showy security drills, then a decentralized security scheme is useless.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
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A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I felt had that special, well - power is a big word to say - more like intimacy and ambition that outlasted the photo shoot. I felt that they would have a longer life.
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If you're a progressive, you've got to be worried about how the federal government is spending its revenue, because we don't have enough money to spend on things like early childhood education that are so important.
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We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.
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Mission means inviting all the peoples of the earth to hear the music of God's future and dance to it today.
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Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it's different, but because it's the same.
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
