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The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#closing #command #could #desperately #him

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#dignity #harmony #his #i #inspiration

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#children #country #destiny #family #few

Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally - and permanently - be 'at home' in a way that defies description. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#arriving #comfortable #day #defies #description

In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#according #become #both #calls #child

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it. ↗

— Vivian Stanshall

#being different #being myself #desperate #different #gang

You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of. ↗

— Scott Stapp

#despised #feel #felt #i #lot

It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required in Iraq and provides the best possible support for all our troops. ↗

— Pete Stark

#best #budget #defense #defense budget #had

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. ↗

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

#chief #dabble #easiest #excellence #fine

We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo. ↗

— Michael Steele

#breakthroughs #cell #cell research #destroy #destroying