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The only constant factor in life is our feelings and attitudes toward life. One of the few things that we have total control over is… — Jim Rohn
We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and… — Maxwell Maltz
Every man's path is for himself; let him accomplish his own desires that he may thus be able to rise above them to the eternal… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
No one wants adversity. Trials, disappointments, sadness, and heartache come to us from two basically different sources. Those who transgress the laws of God will… — Richard G. Scott
As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are… — Frederick William Robertson
Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain,… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and… — Barack Obama
My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She… — Jennifer Garner
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness; His purity shows… — Teresa of Avila
Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty. — Walter Lippmann
What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love… — Ellen Glasgow
My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls. — Thomas Carlyle
Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes. — Martin Heidegger
The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not a cause for complacency or… — Michael Chertoff
[Illegal immigration] costs the taxpayers of the United States a lot of money. And it's unfair to Americans who are working every day to pay… — William J. Clinton
We can't afford to lose control of our own borders or to take on new financial burdens at a time when we are not adequately… — William J. Clinton
It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very important contribution to the fabric… — William J. Clinton
The idea that the United States can't guard its own border is silly. It's a sign that were not serious about this...people who legally shouldn't… — Newt Gingrich
It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's own people. And… — George F. Kennan
Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the lower, more physical,… — George F. Kennan
Like many others, I'm deeply sympathetic to the huge numbers of people looking to come here today to escape suffering and poverty in their own… — Ed Koch
The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty continent with endless… — Richard Lamm
But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive. — Ronald Reagan

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