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• Ninety percent of people support background checks. Which means even people who can't pass a background check support background checks.

  Bill Maher

  Mean, People, Support

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• This week the White House proposed fingerprinting and photographing foreign visitors so they can do background checks. Officials in Saudi Arabia said this will only increase anti-American feelings in the Mideast. Is that possible? Gee, you hate to have people dislike us for no reason. Things were going so well.

  Jay Leno

  Hate, White, People

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• The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

  Beau Willimon

  Government, Balance, Way

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• It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True geniuswill not impoverish, but will liberate, and add new sense. If a wise man should appear in our village, he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth, by opening their eyes to unobserved advantages; he would establish a sense of immovable equality, calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guarantees of condition.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1544, Delphi Classics

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• Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay small acts of kindness and love.

  Peter Jackson

  Kindness, Believe, Small Acts

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• The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Hard Work, Enemy

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.

  Mason Cooley

  Procrastination, Balance, Impatience

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• I try to hold my charisma in check.

  George H. W. Bush

  Trying, Charisma

  1988 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 18 August 1988, Superdome, New Orleans, LA

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• I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Forgiving, Enemy, Morbid

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• Before you can write a check, you must first make out a deposit slip; before you can draw money out of a bank, you must put money into a bank; before you are entitled to a living, you must give the world a life; if you want to make a first-class living, learn to give the world a first-class life.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Life, Writing, Class

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• There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Soul, Tariffs, Commodity

  "Living Words". Book by Edwin Hubbel Chapin, 1869.

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• A rumor is like a check--never endorse it till you're sure it's genuine.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Rumor, Genuine

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• It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Oil, Water, Evil

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• Experience, however, shows that neither a state nor a bank ever have [sic] had the unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power; in all states, therefore, the issue of paper money ought to be under some check and control; and none seems so proper for that purpose as that of subjecting the issuers of paper money to the obligation of paying their notes either in gold coin or bullion.

  David Ricardo

  Issues, Gold, Purpose

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• He who ruleth the raging of the sea, knows also how to check the designs of the ungodly. I submit myself with reverence to His Holy Will. O Abner, I fear my God, and I fear none but Him.

  Jean Racine

  Sea, Design, Rage

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• The only time and place to find enlightenment is in this moment. No need to check your watch. The time is now.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Time, Enlightenment, Watches

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• When you check your own mind properly, you stop blaming others for your problems.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Mind, Blame, Problem

  Thubten Yeshe, Lama Yeshe, Josh Bartok, Nicholas Ribush (2011). “When the Chocolate Runs Out”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided.

  Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

  Determination, Anger

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• I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.

  Francine Mathews

  Disappointment, Passion, Writing

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• [In government] the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other-that the private interest of every individual may be a sentinel over the public rights.

  James Madison

  Rights, Government, Office

  James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers: The Making of the US Constitution”, p.109, Arcturus Publishing

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• As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Culture, Form

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.83, Penguin

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• I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check.

  M. C. Escher

  Might, Upstairs, Basements

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• It was during the eighteenth century - a period of boastful satisfaction with the nice balances within the English constitution - that Englishmen came to accept the Whig view of the utility of an armed citizenry. The armed citizen was not only affirmed to be protecting himself but, together with his fellows, provided the ultimate check on tyranny.

  Joyce Lee Malcolm

  Nice, Views, Balance

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• But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is like reaching for a salary check in its demand on the contemplative faculties.

  Robert Benchley

  Moving, Salary, Tasks

  Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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• On Halloween, don't you know back when you were little, your mom tells you don't eat any candy until she checks it? I used to be so tempted to eat my candy on the way to other people's houses. That used to be such a tease.

  Derrick Rose

  Mom, Halloween, People

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