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To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ↗

— Walter Pater

#burn #ecstasy #flame #hard #life

The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom. ↗

— George Pataki

#engaging #equation #everyone #freedom #israel

There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity. ↗

— George Pataki

#awful #before #between #children #civilians

This Budget reflects a choice - not an easy choice, but the right choice. And when you think about it, the only choice. The choice to take the responsible, prudent path to fiscal stability, economic growth and opportunity. ↗

— George Pataki

#budget #choice #easy #economic #economic growth

We are going through tough economic times but things are looking up, and the indicators are improving not only for large corporations but also for small business. ↗

— George Pataki

#business #corporations #economic #economic times #going

A people free to choose will always choose peace. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#always #choose #free #people #will

Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#bad #bad review #criticism #crushing #either

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. ↗

— Walter Pater

#conjecture #each #ever #experience #group

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. ↗

— Walter Pater

#developed #earlier #element #general #important

We've lost 3,000 jobs in Beaufort County. We've lost half of our manufacturing workforce. ↗

— Tommy Thompson

#half #jobs #lost #manufacturing #our