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• There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.

  Thomas More

  Men, Dying, Thieves

  Thomas More (2013). “Utopia”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children.

  Gunter Grass

  Uncles, Children, Law

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• Businesses large and small shouldn't have to check the expiration date of a tax provision to see if it's still good.

  Michael Enzi

  Checks, Taxes, Stills

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• Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the particular Congress that enacted a particular provision. That methodology is not mine nor, I think, the one that courts have traditionally followed. It is our task, as I see it, not to enter the minds of the Members of Congress - who need have nothing in mind in order for their votes to be both lawful and effective - but rather to give fair and reasonable meaning to the text of the United States Code, adopted by various Congresses at various times.

  Antonin Scalia

  Thinking, Order, Law

  "Pennsylvania v. Union Gas Co., 491 U.S. 1". supreme.justia.com. June 15, 1989.

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• Nature will not let us stay in any one place for too long. She will let us stay just long enough to gather the experience necessary to the unfolding and advancement of the soul. This is a wise provision, for should we stay there too long, we would become too set, too rigid, too inflexible. Nature demands change in order that we may advance.

  Ernest Holmes

  Wise, Order, Long

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• Absolute justice demands that mens incomes and rewards should ... vary, and that some have more than others-so long as human justice is upheld by the provision of equal opportunity for all.

  Sayyid Qutb

  Opportunity, Long, Justice

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• Partial-birth abortion, I think that's going to be upheld. I think that ban is going to be upheld. I think it should be. And I think, as long as there's provision for the life of the mother, then that's something that should be done.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Mother, Thinking, Long

  "He's Ready! Rudy Giuliani Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2007.

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• Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

  John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

  Bills, Absence, Lord

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 2-3, Address to the Electors of the City of London (April 6, 1859), 1922.

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• Quality of life is the sum total of the fairness of our tax structure; the caliber of our homes; the cleanliness of our air and water; and the provision of affirmative assistance to those who cannot assist themselves. True quality is absent if we allow social suffering to abide in an otherwise pristine environment.

  Tom McCall

  Home, Oregon, Air

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• You in the media ought to be ashamed of yourselves to call the provisions and the guarantees of the Bill of Rights 'Technicalities'. They're not. We are what we are because of those guarantees.

  William J. Brennan

  Rights, Media, Bills

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• We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu that we cannot read each others minds, twould stop civilization and everybody would take to the woods. In fifty or hundred thousand centuries when mankind have become perfect by evolution then perhaps this sense could be developed with safety to the state.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Wise, Reading, Successful

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• Americans revere both the Constitution and an independent Court that applies the document's provisions. The Court has done many excellent things in our history, and few people are willing to see its power broken. The difficulty with all proposals to respond to the Court when it behaves unconstitutionally is that they would create a power to destroy the Court's essential work as well.

  Robert Bork

  Independent, People, Broken

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Needs, Morrow, Revenue

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.121, University of Georgia Press

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• God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions.

  Jerry Bridges

  Responsibility, Giving, Holiness

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Pursuit of Holiness: Run in Such a Way as to Get the Prize 1 Corinthians 9:24”, p.49, Tyndale House

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• We can't anticipate and provide for life's trials, but the Lord can and does. The Lord wants us to thirst not after a quick fix to our problems but after the life-altering refreshment of His provision.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Doe, Trials, Want

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• We are living in an inspiring and unimaginably large universe. Contemplating the immensity of our cosmos can make you feel very small and insignificant. But think about it. You have 37.2 trillion cells in your body. There is vastness outside you and vastness inside you. You are connected to this mystery, you are a microcosm of the universe, and every aspect of your life benefits from the universe's provision.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Thinking, Cells, Cosmos

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The fatal effects of sin can be removed only by the provision that God has made. The Israelites saved their lives by looking upon the uplifted serpent. That look implied faith. They lived because they believed God's word, and trusted in the means provided for their recover. So to sinner may look to Christ, and live. He receives pardon through faith in the atoning sacrifice. Unlike the inert and lifeless symbol, Christ has power and virtue in Himself to heal the repenting sinner.

  Ellen G. White

  Mean, Sacrifice, Looks

  Ellen G. White (2015). “The Complete Conflict of the Ages”, p.500, Simon and Schuster

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• The provision of health care facilities must be accepted as a social responsibility. It is not that an individual who has the misfortune to be inflicted with some particular disease is solely responsible for searching the facilities to cure his illness. This is a social responsibility which is accepted by governments all over the world. This is part and parcel of the organization of individuals into societies. It is a measure of the degree of civilization.

  Toh Chin Chye

  Responsibility, Government, Civilization

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• Just as water is the only thing that can relieve thirst in the desert, the provision of God's Word is the only thing that can satisfy our spiritual thirst.

  Jim George

  Spiritual, Water, Desert

  Jim George (2015). “A Man After God's Own Heart”, p.20, Harvest House Publishers

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• We must always keep in mind all legitimate authority is from God, and is given for protection, provision, and peace.

  John Bevere

  Mind, Protection, Authority

  John Bevere (2007). “Honor's Reward: How to Attract God's Favor and Blessing”, p.42, Messenger International

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• Where God gives vision He always provides provision

  Joel Osteen

  Giving, Vision

  Twitter post from May 30, 2013

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• It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provision for the belly, that being the basis and foundation of all operations.

  Frederick The Great

  Army, Prussia, Foundation

  "Military Instructions". Article II: Of the Subsistence of Troops, and of Provisions, 1747.

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• Be ye a refuge to the fearful; bring ye rest and peace to the disturbed; make ye a provision for the destitute; be a treasury of riches for the poor; be a healing medicine for those who suffer pain; be ye doctor and nurse to the ailing; promote ye friendship, and honour, and conciliation, and devotion to God, in this world of non-existence.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Pain, Healing, Medicine

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• By the grace of God I want to impart the Word, and bring you into a place where you will dare to act upon the plan of the Word, to so breathe life by the power of the Word that it is impossible for you to go on under any circumstances without his provision. The most difficult things that come to us are to our advantage from God's side. When we come to the place of impossibilities, it is the grandest place for us to see the possibilities of God.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Grace, Goes On, Want

  Smith Wigglesworth (2000). “Greater Works: Experiencing God’s Power”, p.470, Whitaker House

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• In harvesting of evil deeds, the human race is busy; and doing so is to taste the pangs of Hell . . . The piling up of wealth is the piling up of others' property; what one thus storeth formeth but provisions for one's enemies... I wash off human scandal by devotion true; and by my zeal, I satisfy the Deities. By compassion, I subdue the demons; all blame I scatter to the wind, and upward turn my face.

  Milarepa

  Compassion, Race, Wind

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