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My parents really encouraged me.
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Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed.
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Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary.
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Morally, the promise of an impossible “right†to economic security is an infamous attempt to abrogate the concept of rights. It can and does mean only one thing: a promise to enslave the men who produce, for the benefit of those who don’t.
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They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator.
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It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.
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Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.
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I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.
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All we ask is to be let alone.
