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Just like families must live within their budgets, the Federal Government must live within its means. We have passed appropriations bills that have been fiscally…
— Dennis Hastert
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Art can no longer be art today if it does not reach into the heart of our present culture and work transformatively within it that…
— Joseph Beuys
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The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz,…
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no 'Nigerians' in the same sense as there are 'English,' 'Welsh,' or…
— Obafemi Awolowo
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Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every…
— Salman Rushdie
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A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.
— Harry S. Truman
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Even within traditional universities there has always been debate about whether it wouldn't be better to focus on only one course at a time.
— Philip Greenspun
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When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be loved, feel love, know love,…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me, is the belief…
— Ed Mayo
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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art.…
— Edith Wharton
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Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the…
— John Spence
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The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of…
— William Hazlitt
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We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells…
— Teresa of Avila
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Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
— Napoleon Hill
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Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and…
— Laozi
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Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress."…
— Khalil Gibran
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The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a…
— Emile M. Cioran
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I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that…
— Dave Brubeck
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