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The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.
Tony Campolo

Why, Poor, Reason

A woman will allow herself to be clouded by her emotions. Her reasonable thought becomes completely unreasonable over the most ridiculous thing. It's a girl thing.
Lea DeLaria

Girl, Woman, Thought

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.
Mickey Rivers

Control, Sense, Getting

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
Albert Bandura

Faith, Power, Successful

Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.
Richard Dawkins

True, Fight, Same

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
James Madison

Great, Men, Government

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
Jimmy Carter

Time, Quite, Frankly

As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Today, Made, America

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman

Nature, Technology, Successful

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.
Henry Miller

Love, Enemy, Real

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
Bette Davis

Life, Love, Great

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.
Mary Schmich

Game, Baseball, Words

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
Carl Sandburg

After, Hell, Place

I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.
Charles R. Swindoll

Jesus, Leader, Against

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
Jean Genet

Great, Friendly, Away

Let me tell you who we conservatives are: we love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don't see groups. We don't see victims.
Rush Limbaugh

Love, Human, America

I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with.
Denis Leary

Live, Country, Place

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
Henry Miller

Legal, Often, Everyday

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
Samuel Beckett

Feet, Fault, Blaming

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.
Steve Martin

Woman, Another, She

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.
Robert Brault

Lost, Turn, Took

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life, True, After

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
Rosa Parks

Hurt, Place, Again

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
Thomas Fuller

Wife, Thou, Thy

I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
King Abdullah II

Life, Good, Courage

If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.
Demetri Martin

Time, Down, Move

I wish I could do a lot of things different. I'm not going to tell you what they are, but if I had a list of all my films right now, I'd go, 'Okay, I'll cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out.' Really. But I've made over 40 films. How can I not have some losers in there?
Steve Martin

Different, Made, Wish

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?
Clara Schumann

Beautiful, Enjoy, Why

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
Anton Chekhov

Fear, Powerful, Others

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
William Tecumseh Sherman

War, Trying, Cruelty

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