#pros

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose. ↗

— Peter Davison

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We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever. ↗

— James W. Black

#debts #friends #had #home #however

Granted, prostate exams aren't the most enjoyable things in the world, but they only last about 10 seconds. It's well worth it. Just think of the possible consequences if you don't get it done. ↗

— Len Dawson

#consequences #done #enjoyable #exams #get

Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is. ↗

— Marsha Blackburn

#any #could #course #east #even

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#begin #eight #i #months #novel

The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#evidence #make #obtained #often #presented

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential. ↗

— Tony Blair

#essential #how #live #maximize #minimize

If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life. ↗

— Tony Blair

#conversations #decision #difficult #everybody #frank

But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order. ↗

— Tony Blair

#contagion #crave #economies #ever #fall

Our very long-term prospective hinges on making the best possible wine we can. ↗

— Drew Bledsoe

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