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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For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.
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[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real.
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
