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This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the good of all, he should step aside and address those things that should be most important - his and his family's well-being.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

House, Important, Steps

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Contrary to what President Obama said in his inaugural address, going on Medicare and food stamps does not strengthen us. Just ask people who are fourth-generation welfare recipients.

Mark Skousen

People, President, Doe

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Being a justice. If you love law the way I do... you're given the job of a lifetime... you're permitted to address the most important legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people's lives.

Sonia Sotomayor

Country, Jobs, Law

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Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them.

Michael Steele

Country, People, Important

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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

Wallace Stevens

Needs, Rivals, Might

Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.144, Vintage

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It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.

John Sununu

Technology, Years, Worry

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If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

David Suzuki

Impact, Addiction, Environmental

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The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.

Adora Svitak

Thinking, Age, Adults

"12-year-old author: Don't say 'childish'" by John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. April 15, 2010.

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We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.

Charles R. Swindoll

Jesus, Goal, Focus

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My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet.

Steven Tyler

Taken, Home, People

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[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.

Aeschylus

Clever, Fire, Honor

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We don't have an address," I said, "but we do know where he works." "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Vee asked, eyes brightening briefly through the haze of chemical sedation. "Based on past experience, I hope not.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Eye, Past, Thinking

Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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And I want to rise up, throw my arms open for a vast embrace, address an ample, luminous discourse to the invisible crowds. I would start like this: "O rainbow-colored gods. . .

Vladimir Nabokov

Rainbow, Crowds, Want

Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.50, Vintage

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...we'll first address our inaccurate view of God and, consequently of ourselves.

Francis Chan

Views, Firsts

Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.15, David C Cook

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At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.

Jane Austen

Eye, Sight, Expression

Jane Austen (1811). “Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.43

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Will: "Nice place to live, isn't it? Let's hope they left something behind other than filth. Forwarding addresses, a few severed limbs, a prostitute or two ..." Jem: "Indeed. Perhaps, if we're fortunate, we can still catch syphilis." "Or demon pox," Will suggested cheerfully, trying the door under the stairs.

Cassandra Clare

Nice, Doors, Two

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You spend Christmas at somebody's house, you worry about their operations, you give them hugs and kisses and flowers, you see them in their dressing gown...and then bang, that's it. Gone forever. And sooner or later there will be another mum, another Christmas, more varicose veins. They're all the same. Only the addresses, and the colors of the dressing gown, change.

Nick Hornby

Flower, Kissing, Color

Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.62, Penguin

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The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I actually saw a man in a cowboy hat standing there reading the Gettysburg Address next to a Hasidic Jew. I wouldn’t have been surprised if they had linked arms with a woman in a burka and a Masai warrior, to belt out ‘It’s a Small World After All,’ flanked by a chorus line of nuns and field-tripping, rainbow-skinned schoolchildren

Sarah Vowell

Reading, Warrior, Men

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He [Uncle Vernon] held up the envelope in which Mrs. Weasley’s letter had come, and Harry had to fight down a laugh. Every bit of it was covered in stamps except for a square inch on the front, into which Mrs. Weasley had squeezed the Dursleys’ address in minute writing. “She did put enough stamps on, then,” said Harry, trying to sound as though Mrs. Weasley’s was a mistake anyone could make.

J. K. Rowling

Uncles, Mistake, Writing

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I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address.

Sylvia Plath

Names, Hanging On, Boat

Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel: The Restored Edition”, p.26, Faber & Faber

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Life is adventure. Travel is adventure at a different address.

Kathy Griffin

Adventure, Different, Life Is

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On way. He OK? Aeron Coming. Something wrong? Lucian Take me out of your address book. William

Gena Showalter

Book, Way, Take Me

Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Secret”, p.230, HQN Books

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As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians in top hats and diamonds and silk dresses. I don't see bankers and housewives and store clerks. No. I address you all tonight as you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

Brian Selznick

Mermaid, Dreamer, Clerks

Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.249, Scholastic

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Replies began arriving seconds after he pressed send, and soon every single one of the warriors (besides William) had agreed to come home. Take me out of your address book, William

Gena Showalter

Book, Home, Warrior

Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Secret”, p.230, HQN Books

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So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him.

Margaret Atwood

Fun, Party, Moments

Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.252, Anchor

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