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I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact that we are taking the tab for defense in our time against terrorists in the Middle East and elsewhere and shoving this tab off onto our children. ↗

— John Spratt

#am #attention #calling #children #defense

I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#had #i #schooling #would

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#best #creates #enormous #failings #father

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#cracking #folks #get #point #society

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#does #here #hereafter #him #into

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#confidence #destiny #drive #feeling #gets

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#despair #die #down #life #negative

I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#charles #complication #consciousness #created #darwin

You know, everybody is dealing with issues. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#everybody #issues #know #you

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#folk #i #like #narrative #part