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[The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a big pension fund… — Paul Krugman
This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. Speaking of competition in… — Ray Kroc
I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why does the government… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men - broken into small fragments and… — John Ruskin
In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin. We are not speaking of a wholesome… — Ezra Taft Benson
In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical energy, whether it… — James Clerk Maxwell
In the course of normal speaking the inhibitory function of the will is continuously directed to bringing the course of ideas and the articulatory movements… — Wilhelm Wundt
Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it was because God… — Frederic Farrar
Calvin: Medically speaking:. That's love?!?..... Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!! — Bill Watterson
Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation to something beyond… — Kenny Smith
Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just… — Mother Teresa
[Speaking of marriage and family] In this entire world there is not a more perfect, more complete image of God, Unity and Community. There is… — Pope John Paul II
Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the Dutch; and these are the things… — Seth Low
You have a problem with allowing someone to finish speaking. — Rick Perry
Thanksgiving and Christmas then, for us who love God, are not mere time outs from work days. They are a celebration of the gift of… — Elisabeth Elliot
The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we… — R C Sproul
One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock… — Arthur Conan Doyle
We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is… — Steven Moffat
One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all about.… — Oriana Fallaci
Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their grammar… — Richard Bach
Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down. — Tom Brokaw
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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