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Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them. C. S. Lewis
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At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it.
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We want to provide a link between the classroom environment and what you are doing outside of the classroom. Richard Clarke
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We have no idea how to classify ourselves. We pull from everything -- rock, hardcore, punk, indie.
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What the public wasn't envisioning was a swim through, swim with the dolphins kind of thing. They were looking for a truer aquarium, so the plan has developed into a classic aquarium with of course interactive features.
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Whenever you can hold a Class A team to just three field goals you are playing pretty solid defense.
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Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be. Wendy Kopp
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When you're up 25 points, you pull your starters out with 1:54 left in the game. It's a classy way. You don't need to rub it in.
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We want people to know that classical music is for everyone. A parent or kid might be terrified of this music, but after they come to us, they'll never be scared of classical music again.
america want
I want to rebuild America. Carol Moseley Braun
america water swim
I'll know America is in bad shape when Cubans in Miami get in the water and swim back to Cuba. Carlos Mencia
america doe worst
What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others. Carlos Fuentes
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We have said we intend to restore automotive profitability in North America by no later than 2008 and we remain committed to deliver on our promise. Willa Ford
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We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.
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We have neighbors from South America, the Middle East, India and four or five different Asian countries. It's really a great melting pot, and all the kids play with each other.
america basketball best bumps coach doubt mcmahon people saw watching
We have so many leaders. We're so prepared. Coach McMahon is the best coach in America. People who have been watching basketball saw they had some bumps in the road, too. There is no doubt in my mind. We're going to succeed. Brian Jeroloman
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Whenever we have had a need for a national security or public safety issue, Congress has always followed the recommendations of the White House, regardless of who is in control, giving them the resources to keep America safe and to enforce our laws. Jim Sensenbrenner
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When you say shock value, the fact that we talk about what happened to a person... we talk about real things, we talk about real issues. Montel Williams
united-states significant congress
Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States. Chris Chocola
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Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States. Charlaine Harris
united-states folks collapse
You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses. Bruce Springsteen
united-states immigrants nations
The United States is historically a nation of immigrants. Charles Rangel
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I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable. Madeleine Albright
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I grew up in the United States. Dominique de Villepin
united-states lines problem
The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution. Denis McDonough
united-states may constitution
I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may. Abraham Lincoln
united-states verbal
Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.