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• It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.

  Epictetus

  Wisdom, Impossible, Should

  Epictetus (1928). “The Discourses as Reported by Arrian ; the Manual, and Fragments”

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• Institutional United Methodism in America has given up on cities and given up on young people, so no surprise we are declining by nearly 100,000 annually.

  Mark Tooley

  Cities, America, People

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• Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Devotion, Vocation

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• Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News. It's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War, and its empowered large corporations to get certain kinds of politicians and ideologues who are in the United State Congress elected -- the Tea Party ideologues who control the Republican Party.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Country, War, Party

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• One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Sunset, Men

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982”, Gateway Books

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• Christ, invisible to the bodily eye, manifests Himself on earth clearly through His Church ... The Church is the Body of Christ both because its parts are united to Christ through His divine mysteries and because through her Christ works in the world.

  John of Shanghai and San Francisco

  Love, Truth, Eye

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• Life doesn't have to be about finding Osama bin Laden or becoming the president of the United States. Life is about the little things, which is one of the things you learn when you get older.

  Jack Nicholson

  Life, President, United States

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• I have no idea what my limits are. I believe that if I set my mind to it, within the next fifteen years, I would be the President of the United States.

  Will Smith

  Believe, Years, Ideas

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• God is playing a role in all religions and that Christians are more united than they sometimes think.

  George O. Wood

  Christian, Thinking, Roles

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• The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.

  William Loren Katz

  People, United States, Stories

  William Loren Katz (1993). “The New Freedom to the New Deal, 1913-1939”, Steck-Vaughn Company

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• To model correctly one tranche of one CDO took about three hours on one of the fastest computers in the United States. There is no chance that pretty much anybody understood what they were doing with these securities. Creating things that you don't understand is really not a good idea no matter who owns it.

  John Thain

  Creating Things, Ideas, United States

  "John Thain Admits He Didn't Understand Merrill's Risks" by John Carney, www.businessinsider.com. October 07, 2009,.

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• Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb is not enough to make you human. People who are full of hate and anger against their oppressors or who only see Us versus Them can make a rebellion but not a revolution. The oppressed internalize the values of the oppressor. Therefore, any group that achieves power, no matter how oppressed, is not going to act differently from their oppressors as long as they have not confronted the values that they have internalized and consciously adopted different values.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Mother, Hate, Long

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• But Michael Vick killed dogs, and he did in a heartless and cruel way. And I think, personally, he should've been executed for that. He wasn't, but the idea that the President of the United States would be getting behind someone who murdered dogs?

  Tucker Carlson

  Dog, Thinking, Ideas

  "Tucker Carlson addresses Vick role". www.espn.com. December 30, 2010.

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• I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.

  Olympia Snowe

  Past, Years, People

  Olympia Snowe: Why I’m leaving the Senate" by Olympia Snowe, www.washingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.

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• Doing something that warrants the attention of the President of the United States is super-cool.

  Michael K. Williams

  President, United States, Attention

  "Michael K Williams: my guide to being a Barack Obama-endorsed badass". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2012.

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• At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been fashionable to affirm that all religions are beautiful and all are true...This is a lovely sentiment but it is dangerous, disrespectful, and untrue.

  Stephen Prothero

  Beautiful, Europe, Lovely

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• [Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.

  Paul Bremer

  United States, Politics, Force

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• The United Nations has no business in our elections.

  David Vitter

  Business, Election, United Nations

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• When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

  Eamon de Valera

  Confidence, People, Done

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• Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

  Tran ?uc Luong

  Equality, Rights, Achievement

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• And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Friendship, Important, United States

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• The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

  William H. Seward

  Happiness, Government, Political

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• Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.

  Jeff Sessions

  Marriage, Judging, United States

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• With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session.

  Martin Van Buren

  Government, Sea, Lasts

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.5

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• Of the 50 largest companies in the United States, you are the only woman CEO. Why?

  Angela Braly

  Women, United States, Ceo

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