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According to this woman, who requested anonymity because of her current job as a clinical psychologist, "He and Randy came to my house, they knocked… — Rand Paul
With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America… — Aberjhani
Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military… — Chen Shui-bian
What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future. — David Maister
He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will. — Samuel Tuke
When the U.S. government stops wasting our resources by trying to maintain the price of gold, its price will sink to...$6 an ounce rather than… — Henry S. Reuss
Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second coming of Christ,… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Anything you grab hold of on the bank breaks with the river's pressure. When you do things from your soul, the river itself moves through… — Coleman Barks
The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it… — Richard Schickel
It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence, it answers most… — Alexander Hamilton
Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it. — Oprah Winfrey
No compact among men . . . can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words,… — George Washington
The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in… — William J. Brennan
People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try… — David Steindl-Rast
In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences.… — Bernhard von Cotta
There are various causes for the generation of force: a tensed spring, an air current, a falling mass of water, fire burning under a boiler,… — Justus von Liebig
The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those admitted to prison… — Michelle Alexander
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an… — Lawrence Venuti
With a nonviolent movement we are still inviting a strong reaction from the government or ruling authorities. We are inviting a powerful reaction against ourselves.… — Tim DeChristopher
I had no fear of the stream's perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on rocks, the running… — Clare B. Dunkle

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