Dave Thomas
Comedian, Actor
"Every child deserves a home and love. Period."
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Adoption
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Theresa May
Politician
"On gay adoption I have changed my mind."
Valerie Harper
Actress
"However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle."
Mother Teresa
Missionary, Nun
"Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poet
"There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried."
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""Salvation is always "good news." It is news of God's love and forgiveness-adoption into His family- fellowship with His people-freedom from the penalty of sin- liberation from the power of sin.""
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"There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth."
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"I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait."
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"I have a lot of respect for my birth mother I know she must have had a lot of love for me to want to give what she felt was a better chance."
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"Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption."
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"Having been adopted, I really have a strong sense- a necessity almost- for stability, a foundation where my family is concerned. [Success] would be meaningless without anyone to share it with."
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"Faith is the evidence of divine adoption."
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"The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy."
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"The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity."
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"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
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"Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end. - 'Metaphysical Principles of Virtue"
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"Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption. It is the Gospel in my living room."
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"The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed."
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"Almost as soon as I went vegan, people started telling me that my skin looked great, and that I appeared younger, slimmer, and healthier. I'm convinced that of all the changes I've made to my lifestyle, it's the adoption of a vegan diet that has been best for me - physically, mentally, and certainly spiritually."
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"Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow."
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"The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain understanding of the people of the United States at the time of its adoption - a meaning to be found in the explanations of those who advocated, not those who opposed it, and who opposed it merely lest the construction should be applied which they denounced as possible."
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"Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world."
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"Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook."
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"My adoption was treated as a celebration."
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"We are fighting abortion through adoption."
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