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I spent nearly two decades as a social worker and an educator with kids. So, my whole life has been about helping… — Kyrsten Sinema Copy Share Image
Frankly, the idea that exposed legs are some sort of sexual provocation is an argument one would expect to hear from a… — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books… — William Browne Copy Share Image
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The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are… — George Will Copy Share Image
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It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
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I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial; and we have also a mind's ear.… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
The mandate entails a generous synthesis of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. The title requires the expert to be truly… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
I spent so much time at Escuela Caribe denying my true emotions and avoiding conflict that I became unsure of what my… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
I don't think that split government is a good idea. Conventional wisdom in Washington for years has been that divided government is… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or argument; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
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Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
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As is so often the case with pieces that appear in the 'Onion,' I honestly could not decide whether this was a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You read [Bill ] Maher's book, and he didn't take Econ 101. All his arguments about gasoline, it's not that they're right… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The thing I always say to any writer that I'm working with is: Just make sure that in any argument, EVERYONE is… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
To describe someone as a pessimist is to issue an insult, whereas to be labelled an optimist is to get a pat… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think that programmers wares are programs. Programmers have to produce trustworthy solutions and present it in the… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
In fact, you could make the argument that a historian like Shlomo Aronson does in passing in one of his books, that… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I have no truck with the faintly conspiratorial argument that international governments are gleeful about a public-health emergency to enact authoritarian measures. — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
It's been said a thousand ways by hundreds of different people through the years, but is still as true as ever. If… — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
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Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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