I think we have a rawer version of capitalism and a more fragile community and family base than other nations. We are a more individualistic culture. From the Boston Tea Party on, we've had too little faith in government.
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Related The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN The tea partiers are a great addition. The tea partiers have invigorated a base that has been dorman... JOHN MCCAIN I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We... RAND PAUL The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... We have to shift our thinking a little, too. We have to make people in town now more aware of what w... AL COHEN I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensiv... 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PAUL DONOVAN The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we sho... HILLARY CLINTON We are well rested and I think we appreciate each other a lot more now than we did in the past, HOWIE DOROUGH We were brought up Protestant, and I went to church three times a day on a Sunday. My parents weren&... BONNIE TYLER Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly... GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end... DEYTH BANGER a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We just needed a few more base hits in a row and we would have had that game. JACKIE IWANIEC It's not nearly as wholesale as it may look from the get-go. I like this line. We have a little vers... BRYAN STINESPRING Corporate engineers have looked at how women are with each other, borrowing the best tips from femal... ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD There's a reason we English are ruled more by tea than by Buckingham Palace or His Majesty's Governm... ALAN BRADLEY You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS I think we have a little more depth than he does. CHAD GILBERT On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we... KATHY ACKER I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand... MICHAEL JACKSON The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecti... JR The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the ... CARLO AZEGLIO CIAMPI The sophomores have matured from last year, but we are still a young team. We gained some experience... AMY ESTRY You know, we've got so much on Bravo and coming up on Bravo, and I think we have so much more go... ANDY COHEN 3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on t... BILL GATES And because of the reunion I think we've got more energy and enthusiasm than we've ever had.... GLENN TIPTON We've wanted to be part of this community for more than 25 years, and we are excited to have the opp... BLAKE NORDSTROM I think we can be more than that. I think we can help ourselves be more economically self-sufficient... BILL NEW And when I saw you kissing that girl My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered And ... KATE NASH Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that w... STAN GETZ It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR I think the jobs we had with Russell were always taken for granted. The entire community thought it ... DON MCCLELLAN I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, a... IMOGEN HEAP I think there is a real misunderstanding about what the Tea Party movement is. The Tea Party movemen... MARCO RUBIO I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and go... TED TURNER Every day we did get a little more scared and more worried. But my parents raised some pretty resour... LORI MOCK We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our d... DANIEL KAHNEMAN We are responsible for ourselves and each other. RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast... ETHEL MERMAN We think we can raise our per capita income, build the knowledge base, the economy and get a little ... DOUG BRADLEY The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we sho... HILLARY CLINTON But we will be a little more fragile this time. BILL CARMODY You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building... JIM DEMINT More than anything, we are concerned to have a healthy community and healthy families. LILIANA SAHAMI While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the... BOB MENENDEZ We always have a big party with the entire family in celebration of our faith and food is a huge par... MARIA OLIVAS Girl! I'm here to make you look Fa-Bu-Lous! FAKE CINNA There has never been a moment when faith hasn't been an important part of my life. There have be... MARCO RUBIO I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the f... SALMAN RUSHDIE We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The growth of the company and the license that Starbucks has is to participate in other food and bev... HOWARD SCHULTZ Honestly, I don't think (big-game experience) was a part of it. We garnered more and more confidence... GREG STAKE We live in a culture where more and more people are on opposite sides of these basic issues. FRANCIS MANION Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I thin... 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BERTRAND RUSSELL All movements go too far , and this is certainly true of the movement toward subjectivity, whi... BERTRAND RUSSELL When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will sea... BERTRAND RUSSELL What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out. BERTRAND RUSSELL What makes a belief true or false I call a fact. The particular fact that makes a given belief true ... BERTRAND RUSSELL An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best inc... RUSSELL BAKER A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously tran... BERTRAND RUSSELL The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the i... BERTRAND RUSSELL Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. BERTRAND RUSSELL Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnecte... BERTRAND RUSSELL Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have... BERTRAND RUSSELL My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend ... BERTRAND RUSSELL Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. BERTRAND RUSSELL Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hambur... RUSSELL BRAND Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a cleve... BERTRAND RUSSELL I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. BERTRAND RUSSELL One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly ... BERTRAND RUSSELL Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek ou... RUSSELL HOBAN Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ... PETER RUSSELL Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, li... BERTRAND RUSSELL Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whet... BERTRAND RUSSELL The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchston... BERTRAND RUSSELL Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but e... BERTRAND RUSSELL We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and a... BERTRAND RUSSELL It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends wi... RUSSELL LYNES Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the se... BERTRAND RUSSELL It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to ea... BERTRAND RUSSELL