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"Where everyman is participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year but everyday, he will let the heart be torn out of his body sooner than his power be wrested from him by a Caesar or a Bonaparte."
"I am earth, earth My heart's love Bursts with hay and flowers. I am a lake of blue air In which my own appointed place Field and valley Stand reflected"
"After watching the video, the senseless shooting and taking of Walter Scott's life was absolutely unnecessary and avoidable. My heart aches for the family and our North Charleston community. I will be watching this case closely."
"Sometimes you have positional authority, and that is very hopeful. But the reality of it is the nation responds to moral authority, when we believe that our president has the entire nation`s best interests at heart."
"Google has you at a very specific mental state that is, looking for something. And what they've always been able to say is, we deliver your message at the exact time someone is, say, looking for fishing hooks or looking for marriage counseling or looking for a lawyer for a particular problem. And here we have our customers telling you what is in their heart and soul. It's something that, you know, advertisers have wanted for decades."
"When you pay for stuff, it has more of your interests in heart."
"The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'"
"Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower."
"There is a direct line that runs from our doctrine to our actions, from what is in our minds to what is in our words and ways... The heart spills over into life. Thoughts of God, and of all else, erupt into acts. The filling of the heart with wise thoughts of God becomes the most important, the most practical, business in the world."
"I still love coming home, but home is where the heart is. I take those whom I love most with me. That's my number one. My number two is being ready."
"I'm a born-again Christian, but that's not the coat that I wear. It's just how my heart's been changed."
"The words, when they came to my heart, were so gentle, and familiar -- and so very sad: What is this you have done?"
"How mighty, how great the One must be, I thought, to send the heavens careening, and yet hear the cry of a single heart."
"I have always loved rock music. But I have played country music since my senior year in high school. That's where my heart is. I try to keep up with the rock world as much as I can."
"I think tension between the intimate and the vast is at the heart of every poem by any poet, though of course the terms with which it is explored vary. Perhaps it is something we seek out in order to affirm that our small lives are tethered to something large and ongoing."
"I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts."
"I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating."
"I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to."
"Tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new. Built on spirit intent of heart, and ideals based on truth."
"I stop and stare at the younger, my heart goes to 'em, they stressed out and goin' under."
