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I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there. ↗

— Lynn Westmoreland

#civil #defense #downer #fema #firefighters

I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#always #because #businessmen #buying #clothes

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#balance of power #between #democracy #elites #imbalance

Don't use drowsy EYES to look at what Christ used a passionate BLOOD to do for you. Don't use a sluggish LEG to walk towards what Christ used a compassionate FLESH to build for you ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#christ #compassion #compassionate #drowsy #eye

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#joy #often #sorrow #source

They sent me to these places to get the weight off. The diets never worked; the diets actually made it worse. ↗

— Lisa Whelchel

#diets #get #made #me #never

I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I'm always itching to get back in the car. It's going to get harder, so I've got to make sure that I'm doing everything I possibly can do to make sure I can start next season how I ended this season. ↗

— Dan Wheldon

#back #been #bit #bored #car

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly. ↗

— Arsene Wenger

#course #life #off #pitch #private

I was so happy it was like a food, like I'd been stuffed with it, a foie gras goose of happiness; happy enough to know, fully, that I was happy, and foolishly, for one second, to dare the thought: "Imagine—imagine if each Saturday morning could be like this," and in the middle of the singing, I blushed, not even looking at her, because even just having it I knew there was something wrong about the thought. Another boundary crossing—an acknowledgment to myself, so fleeting but so dangerous, of how hungry I was. ↗

— Claire Messud - The Woman Upstairs

#the-nature-of-happiness #food

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome. ↗

— Benjamin Whichcote

#esteem #politicians #principles #profitable #religion