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My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own. Sandra Day O'Connor
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I'm not on any crusade. Don Henley
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It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree. Helen Fielding
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People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. Soren Kierkegaard
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Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst. George Farquhar
And it's also producing a growth in debt to the United States that will weight very heavily in a country that has to address issues like having more old people to be covered by Social Security or by pension in the future. Rodrigo Rato
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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. Margaret Thatcher
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Teach a child to read and he/she will pass a literary test. George W. Bush
I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me. Alison Krauss
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I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd. Jeff Tweedy
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We don't see things how they are, we see things the way we are. Anais Nin
Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions. Nick Rahall
I'm up here in Cleveland tonight and there are a lot of folks who are concerned about it. Twenty-five percent of the people up here get their health care through religious organizations and so that religious freedom issue is very important to them. Rob Portman