"As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need."
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"There's dozens of unrelated policy provisions tucked inside of it. I'll give you a sense of a handful of them. One is a visa waiver program change. It's going to make it harder for people who've traveled to places with terrorist activity to get into the U.S. They're going to have to go through an added layer of security."
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"OK, so this pack - tax package includes about 50 tax breaks. None of them are new. They were all existing tax breaks. What this did was make them permanent. It gives some certainty for people when they're filing taxes that they don't have to wonder if Congress is going to renew them year after year."
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"Never give up! There's always hope because there's always help"
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"I am still in touch with my Secret Service agents, most of whom are retired now. They really get to be your friends. They watched me grow up, and most of them had little kids, so I was kind of giving them a warm-up of what was coming."
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"I collect Victorian automata and coming across them in the dark does give you a little shudder."
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"I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us."
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"Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same."
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"The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer."
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"Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world"
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"Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!"
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"I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo-Conservatives."
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"The God which cannot give me food in this world, cannot give me Heaven in the other world"
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"I am a slave of Ramakrishna, who left his work to be done by me and will not give me rest till I have finished it. And oh, how shall I speak of him? Oh, his love for me!"
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"Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work."
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"None deserves liberty who is not ready to give liberty"
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"Strength, strength for us. What we need is strength, who will give us strength? There are thousands to weaken us, and of stories we have had enough."
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"What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart."
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"The coward, afraid of the lash, with one hand wipes his eyes and gives with the other. Of what avail are such gifts?"
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"We never want Him. We say, "Lord, give me a fine house." We want the house, not Him. "Give me health! Save me from this difficulty!" When a man wants nothing but Him, [he gets Him]."
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