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• We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.

  Adrian G. Duplantier

  Mom, Mother, Government

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• If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the earnest saint. It is the mixing up of the two that is so disastrous. Nothing can block you so effectively as compromise, for it shows lack of earnestness, without which nothing can be done.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Buddhist, Block, Two

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• In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done.

  Milarepa

  Buddhist, Mind, Mountain

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• Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.

  Wendell Willkie

  War, Home, Fighting

  Wendell L. Willkie (1943). “Prefaces TO PEACE”

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• I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

  Karen Allen

  First Love, Love Is, Firsts

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• Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Life, Motivational, Jobs

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2009). “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world - including in my own country.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Appreciation, Islamic

  President Obama's remarks to the Turkish Parliament, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 6, 2009.

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• The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Taken, Promise

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• Let anyone who has zeal for God come with me! Let us fight for our brothers! Let Heaven's will be done!

  Conrad III of Germany

  Brother, War, Fighting

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• Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Prayer, Men, Heaven

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• Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Wisdom, Prayer, School

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• We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Overcoming, Gains

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.37, CCEL

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• Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jobs, Prayer, Issues

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Shadow of an Agony”, p.88, Discovery House

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• There are many miles to go before we get this done ... But I have a feeling that ... we're going to have a big bipartisan vote for this in the end. My sense is that people are more optimistic than they've been in 20 years about addressing this problem.

  Michael Bennet

  Optimistic, Years, People

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• This isn't all going to be done in one day, either.

  Jeff Flake

  One Day, Immigration, Immigration Reform

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• It's the only way that I see that it can be done," McCain said. "Obviously, it has failed in the past, but I also notice there is a somewhat changed attitude on the part of the American people about this issue.

  John McCain

  Attitude, Past, Issues

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• I think on this issue more than any other we're going to see sort of a bipartisan longing to get something done, and hopefully you're not going to find the fisticuffs that you would find on lots of other issues. I think you'll be able to glean a sense of progress without us revealing the specifics.

  Charles Schumer

  Thinking, Issues, Progress

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• We have to stand up for these issues when it's tough, and that's what I've done. I did it when I was in the state legislature, sponsoring the Illinois version of the DREAM Act, so that children who were brought here through no fault of their own are able to go to college, because we actually want well-educated kids in our country who are able to succeed and become part of this economy and part of the American dream.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Country, Children

  The California Democratic Debate in Los Angeles, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 31, 2008.

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• Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery follow a great victory. Do only what needs to be done without using violence.

  Laozi

  Spring, Army, Conquer The World

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• The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Violence, Painful

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• That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Hero, Men

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.3, CCEL

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• A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of the past; the man of many and acceptable prayers has done the truest and greatest service to the incoming generation.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Past, Men

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.4, CCEL

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• When you can't do nothing but pray-you've done a whole lot.

  T. D. Jakes

  Prayer, Praying, Whole

  Twitter post from Oct 24, 2014

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• We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade God to do what we want, but to find out what he wants us to do. It so often happens that in prayer we are really saying, 'Thy will be changed,' when we ought to be saying, 'Thy will be done.' The first object of prayer is not so much to speak to God as to listen to him.

  William Barclay

  Prayer, Trying, Want

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• I believe that sooner or later we're going to have to deal with Saddam Hussein, because of his general reputation, because of what I'm convinced he's done with regard to terrorism and the support thereof. But I'm not at all sure I believe that it has to be right now.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  Believe, Support, Hussein

  "Transcript: Lawrence Eagleburger on FNS". Interview With Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2002.

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