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The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They're not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It's in everybody's best interest. ↗

— Erskine Bowles

#american #american people #begin #best #bipartisan

Death is the welcome cessation of idiocy. ↗

— Stephen Evans

#death #idiocy #welcome

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it. ↗

— Erskine Bowles

#certain #compensate #deserve #duty #earn

The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#behind #beneath #hides #horror #lies

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#age #being #being a man #die #dies

I choose things by how they resonate in my heart. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#heart #how #i #resonate #things

Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#complicated #deciding #enough #having #homes

Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#appreciate #could #get #hard #i

Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#agreement #commitments #completely #destruction #dismantle

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#courses #did #english #english literature #figured