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America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats. ↗

— Christopher Bond

#america #challenges #faced #future #grown

Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#certainly #challenges #cycle #episode #faced

A painting that is well composed is half finished. ↗

— Pierre Bonnard

#composed #finished #half #painting #well

I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't. ↗

— Debby Boone

#fact #fame #hall #i #one-hit

I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I will tell you how it happened. ↗

— Francesco Borromini

#been #eight #half #half past #happened

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged. ↗

— Lou Brock

#challenge #challenged #over #period #playing

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#eternity #shallow #silence #speech #time

The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious, as well as imminent, that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike. ↗

— John O. Brennan

#actions #again #against #base #believe

Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated. ↗

— John Bright

#ballot #called #care #constitutional #decide

You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it. ↗

— Lou Brock

#baseball #because #before #challenge #conquer