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To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#choice #constituted #maintain #matter #obligations

Well, you know, any defense force worth its salt has to be able to deal with uncertainty, has to be able to deal with events that we may not have planned for. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#any #deal #defense #events #force

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#credit #doing #foresight #give #give me

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#find #give #him #little #much

In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other. ↗

— Bill Pascrell

#cannot #communicate #consistently #each #era

While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain. ↗

— Ed Pastor

#aspects #cannot #certain #courageous #gain

As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole. ↗

— Lance Secretan

#cannot #commitment #effective #focused #leaders

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#cannot #disposition #increase #only #ounce

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#cannot #conditioned #consensus #day #force

Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#bipartisanship #cannot #forward #going #having