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We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
Barbara Jordan
People
Made
Mistakes
Consequences
Our
All People
Haste
All Things
Temporary
Only
Voices
Deafness
Hear
Condition
Foresee
Did
Irreversible
Full
Actions
Things
Raised
We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
Barbara Jordan
Future
People
National
Community
Our
About
National Community
Search
Present
You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
Barry Goldwater
You
Military
Able
Shoot
Just
Straight
To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
Barry Goldwater
Disagree
Disagreeable
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin
Money
Will
Everything
He
Well
Opinion
Doing
Suspected
May
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin
Love
Marriage
Will
Without
Where
An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
Benjamin Franklin
Today
Better
Than
Egg
Hen
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Benjamin Franklin
Family
Too
Mark
Indeed
Broader
Pleasure
He
Observe
Sorrow
Does
While
Them
Then
Stand
Large
Stands
Large Family
Lives
Raises
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin Franklin
Work
Religion
World
Think
See
Like
Partnership
Cannot
Which
Sanction
Us
Who
Serious
Binds
He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Benjamin Franklin
He
Helped
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin
Wealth
His
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Benjamin Franklin
Art
People
Consists
Coughing
Acting
Keeping
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
Benjamin Franklin
Book
He
Wiser
Himself
Than
I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.
Benjamin Franklin
World
Made
Profit
Having
Inventions
Proposed
Never
Make
Least
Private
Nor
Any
Interest
Them
Reception
I am a socialist; of course I am a socialist. To hold a vision that society can be fundamentally different, to believe that all people can be equal - that is not a new idea.
Bernie Sanders
People
Vision
Believe
Society
All People
Idea
New
Equal
Course
New Idea
Am
Different
Hold
Socialist
Fundamentally
The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
Bill Bradley
Experience
Own
Defeat
Taste
Richness
The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.
Billy Tauzin
Life
God
Me
New Life
Given
Take
New
Mission
Question
Want
Wanted
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
Chanakya
Future
Fear
Men
Past
About
Only
Discernment
Deal
Fret
Nor
Anxious
Should
Moment
Present
Present Moment
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
Chanakya
Family
Son
Single
Tree
Destroy
Rascal
Withered
Does
Causes
Forest
Burn
Whole
Set
As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
Chanakya
Death
Health
You
Soul
Try
Long
Healthy
Control
Distant
Body
Your
Your Body
Save
No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let's end the fear. Let's enforce existing gun laws.
Charles B. Rangel
Work
Fear
School
Gun
Live
Kids
Gun Laws
Laws
Existing
End
American
Sending
Going
Enforce
Should
I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that affects all of our constitutional rights and privileges.
Charles B. Rangel
Freedom
Rights
Freedom Of Speech
Think
Our
Constitutional
Constitutional Rights
Never
Never Forget
Issue
Affects
Very
Privileges
Forget
American
Sensitive
Should
Speech
Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
Claude Pepper
Racism
Sexism
Odious
Ageism
The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
Claude Pepper
Mistake
Politicians
Thinking
Make
Been
Lot
Forgetting
Appointed
If we want a great nation, we have to change it ourselves.
Cory Booker
Great
Change
Nation
Ourselves
Great Nation
Want
Tolerance says I am just going to stomach your right to be different. That if you disappear from the face of the earth, I am no better or worse off. But love - love knows that every American has worth and value, no matter what their background, race, religion, or sexual orientation.
Cory Booker
Love
Religion
You
Worth
Better
Matter
Value
Face
Tolerance
Every
Earth
Worse
Background
Says
Be Different
Sexual
Disappear
Knows
Am
Off
American
Stomach
Going
Just
Different
Race
Your
Orientation
Right
Every American
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