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Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments. ↗

— Tom Coburn

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I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#american dream #believe #children #dream #grandchildren

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real. ↗

— Frank Stella

#chaos #fully #human #human personality #into

We have to make sure that we are a force for peace and stability in the world, and that we're prepared to defend freedom and the security of the American people. ↗

— Thad Cochran

#american people #defend #force #freedom #make

Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don't overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified. ↗

— Thad Cochran

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The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it. ↗

— Alexander Cockburn

#contradict #existing #first #first law #journalism

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about! ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#also #because #case #country #history

Today, writers want to impress other writers. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#other #today #want #writers

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#beings #constant #human #human beings #i

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#i #interpret #invitations #my own #own