We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.

The encouragement of industry and frugality among the poor, by visits at their own inhabitations; the relief of real distress, whether arising from sickness or other causes; and the prevention.This is the Mission Statement of the Brighton District Society (which she created).

Elizabeth Fry

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Marlene Dietrich

Ignore what a man desires, and you ignore the very source of his power.

Walter Lippmann

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

Oscar Hammerstein II

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.

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I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

Anthony Doerr

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Margaret Atwood

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance

Samuel Johnson

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Doug Gwyn

The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn't do the work they do for free: According to economist Marilyn Waring, throughout the West it generates between 25 and 40 percent of the gross national product.

Naomi Wolf