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I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend. ↗

— John Gresham Machen

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. ↗

— Malcolm X

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Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

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Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

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I've made my peace with being in the spotlight, definitely. ↗

— Miranda Otto

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To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his. ↗

— Sarah Palin

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What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit. ↗

— Ed Parker

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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. ↗

— Walter Pater

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The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

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Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move. ↗

— Colin Powell

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