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A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again. ↗

— Laurel Lee

#beyond #could #forgive #form #grooves

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#nature #noble #observes #often #only

I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#center #first #getting #had #i

Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#care #deserve #end-of-life #medical #medical care

The young people of India will build a strong and powerful nation, a nation that is politically mature and economically strong, a nation whose people enjoy both a high quality of life as well as justice. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#build #economically #enjoy #high #high quality

Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it. ↗

— Jerry Only

#dime #look #made #misfits #never

It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former. ↗

— Richard Pound

#baseball #brush #carpet #clean #come

You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem's living proof. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#am #believer #eminem #firm #firm believer

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it. ↗

— Larry J. Sabato

#affect #archaic #bill #bill of rights #bits