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The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.


Martha Roby

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MARTHA BECK The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting.
MARTHA REEVES People love me everywhere. On an unofficial level, I'm an ambassador and a civil servant for Detroit...
MARTHA REEVES Dancing in the Streets.
MARTHA REEVES Him being hands-on helped us all prosper.
MARTHA REEVES Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worr...
MARTHA BECK We go through a rigorous vetting process of products before they even get to Martha.
MARTHA STEWART Comparing and contrasting is a valuable human skill - and not just during high school English exams....
MARTHA BECK Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is...
MARTHA BECK We didn't wait for a holiday or a birthday or anything like that to get together. It was just the th...
MARTHA DAVIS If to dance is to dream, then you make dreams come true
MARTHA GRAHAM If I tell a man he needs to quit his soul-sucking job, he has to go home and fight with his wife or ...
MARTHA BECK The most beautiful destination I've been to was the Seychelles Islands, and the most culturally ...
MARTHA HUNT Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
MARTHA BECK I cannot count the times I've been defeated, humiliated, or physically injured immediately after...
MARTHA BECK My dog has the intellectual capacity of a lime wedge, yet even he possesses an elaborate set of assu...
MARTHA BECK If sex is as simple as: trying something (be it a position, technique or otherwise); seeing if you l...
MARTHA LEE Give yourself permission to use your sexual imagination. Your sexual fantasies, desires, and dreams ...
MARTHA LEE If you don’t ask for what you want, you will most certainly not get it. But the first thing is to ...
MARTHA LEE Like much of everything we know, we acquire the knowledge, practice through trial and error, and per...
MARTHA LEE Being in his arms, ... tilting up my face, ... smelling his aftershave in his beard, ... kissing it,...
MARTHA LEE Indecision may come from an instinctive hunch that there's more you need to know - which means i...
MARTHA BECK