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• In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Intensity, Should, Torture

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2007). “SAT Words from Literature - the Scarlet Letter”, p.75, Prestwick House Inc

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• It is pretty clear in the Bible story that the whale swallowing Jonah wasn't meant as a punishment from God, it was God saving him from drowning. So it was actually provision to give him a second chance. The whale itself was the start of Jonah's second chance.

  Phil Vischer

  Second Chance, Whales, Punishment

  "Behind the Scenes: Jonah and the Bible". "Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie", 2002.

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• Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.

  George Eliot

  Art, War, Passion

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.117, Penguin

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• You have two pages, that's the whole credit card agreement. The terms are clear and flat and easy to see so anyone can read them. So you could lay four credit cards in front of you and say, 'Oh, that's the one that has the highest rate, that's the one that has the really scary provision that could hurt me.'

  Elizabeth Warren

  Hurt, Agreement, Two

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• Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity... yet here there is this beautiful provision, that it is in thy power again to unite thyself. God has allowed this to no other part, after it has been separated and cut asunder, to come together again. ...he has distinguished man, for he has put it in his power not to be separated at all from the universal ...he has allowed him to be returned and to be united and to resume his place as a part.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Beautiful, Cutting, Men

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VIII, (34), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.

  Louis de Broglie

  Knowledge, Discovery, Limits

  "Causality and Chance in Modern Physics". Foreword of book by David Bohm, p.10, 1984.

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• Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

  Voltaire

  Love, Self, Anorexia

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.73

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• Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

  Charles Wagner

  Humanity, Certain, Elementals

  Charles Wagner (2009). “The Simple Life”, p.28, The Floating Press

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• We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

  Sharron Angle

  Government, Bread, Protection

  "Angle: 'What’s happening (in America)..is a violation of the 1st Commandment,' entitlements 'make government our God'". lasvegassun.com. August 4, 2010.

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• A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

  Samuel Johnson

  Civilization, History, Political

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1770)

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• Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Time, Stupid, Journey

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• God knows what each one of us is dealing with. He knows our pressures. He knows our conflicts. And He has made a provision for each and every one of them. That provision is Himself in the person of the Holy Spirit, indwelling us and empowering us to respond rightly.

  Kay Arthur

  Empowering, Pressure, Spirit

  Kay Arthur (2009). “As Silver Refined: Learning to Embrace Life's Disappointments”, p.68, WaterBrook

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• Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

  Jonathan Swift

  Literature, Poison, Beast

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes, and a Life of the Author”, p.251

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• Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

  Karl Kraus

  Time, People, Democracy

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

  Voltaire

  Love Is, Self, Giving

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.73

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• The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Looks, Unions, Constitution

  Texas v. White (1869)

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• If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

  George Sutherland

  Comfort, May, Constitution

  Home Building & Loan Association v. Blaisdell, 290 U.S. 398, (483), 1934.

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• This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness

  David Platt

  Faith, God, Christian

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• Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.

  Roger Wicker

  Rights, Libertarian, Facts

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• The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of United Nations Mission in Kosovo.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Believe, Law, Consideration

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• But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.

  Jim McDermott

  Hurt, Thinking, Government

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• Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies.

  James F. Byrnes

  Allies, Germany, Assets

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• The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country.

  Norm Dicks

  Country, Military, Party

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• Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.

  Pete Stark

  Rights, Government, Abuse

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• Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.22.

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