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Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?
Paul Ryan

Government, Goal, Lives

If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.
Paul Ryan

Today, Children, Tomorrow

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.
Jimmy Carter

Women, Men, Hate

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.
Harry S. Truman

Cannot, Facts, Unless

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
William Hazlitt

Respect, Heart, Human

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
William Butler Yeats

Good, Best, Bad

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
Alexander Pope

Trust, Yourself, Friend

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
Lee Iacocca

Education, God, Yourself

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
George Eliot

Wise, Fool, Wife

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
George Eliot

Personal, Liking, Parties

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot

May, Happen, Play

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide

Yourself, Done, Said

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
Marquis de Sade

Happiness, Choice, Lies

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson

Book, Library, Turn

If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.
Rip Torn

Love, Best, Girl

A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.
Chuck Norris

Give, Before, Last

The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.
Susannah York

Angry, Someone, Woman

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.
Dolly Parton

Time, Good, Happy

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
James M. Barrie

Love, Humble, Praise

Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're gonna jump on it.... There's gonna be haters.
Justin Bieber

Time, Waiting, Haters

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Work, Long, Done

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
William Butler Yeats

Poetry, Others, Quarrel

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Good, Heart, Pure

I drink to make other people interesting.
George Jean Nathan

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
Jane Austen

Woman, Another, Loves

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Francis Bacon

Truth, Hard, Sometimes

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
Francis Bacon

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
William Tecumseh Sherman

War, Easy, Result

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
Mignon McLaughlin

God, Whether, Sound

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
Barbara Walters

Success, Nice, Two

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