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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#far #heaven #into #men #often

To the contrary, when you look at projections, both Polish and international, we can expect some slowing down of the rate of growth in the coming year, 2012. But of course these are projections. ↗

— Marek Belka

#coming #contrary #course #down #expect

I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas. ↗

— Chris Bell

#because #complaint #congressional #corruption #delay

These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#countries #egypt #general #general motors #groups

For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it. ↗

— Camilla Belle

#becoming #building #drained #emotional #emotionally

Of all the things I've ever done, perhaps none was more difficult than turning away from my beautiful girl and walking away, leaving her there, never to look back. But my friend Tom, my ever-faithful good friend Tom said, pointing down the hall away from Cec's room, 'Life's that way. Let's go home.' And so we did. ↗

— Jim Beaver

#inspirational #life #love #beauty

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#conditional #fiction #open #science #science fiction

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#community #down #first #foremost #handed

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day. ↗

— William Bennett

#controversies #day #different #difficult #discussion

I'm very traditional, believe it or not. My daughters are not allowed to date until they're at least 16 and I'm going to make it 18 for the next one. ↗

— Anna Benson

#believe #date #daughters #going #i