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I don't think anyone who has followed the progress of the Islamofascist terrorists who have threatened us believe we are going to be safe if we try a fortress mentality, to step back and say no one is going to hit us, they don't care about the United States. They do. ↗

— Kit Bond

#anyone #back #believe #care #followed

And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings. ↗

— Julian Bond

#announcing #anyone #board #day #end

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education. ↗

— Julian Bond

#children #education #going #receiving #school

A number of the major terrorist captures we have made, the terrorist operations designed for the United States that we have interrupted, were enabled by the terrorist tracking program. ↗

— Kit Bond

#designed #enabled #interrupted #made #major

If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out in 2010 but comes back in full force in 2011. That is a ridiculous and untenable policy. ↗

— Kit Bond

#back #come #comes #current #current law

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return? ↗

— Epictetus

#any #case #child #dead #deprived

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit. ↗

— Epictetus

#assured #evil #habit #increased #only

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. ↗

— Epictetus

#any #bear #blossom #bunch #created

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. ↗

— Epictetus

#heaven #little #little things #practice #proceed

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed. ↗

— Epictetus

#our #place #religion #sacrificed #same