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Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens.


Earl Blumenauer


#citizens #economics #failed #gay #lesbian

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.


Euripides


#acting #fortune #free #law #other

As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.


James L. Buckley


#amendment #appearance #avoid #campaign #consequence

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.


Paul Farmer


#activists #causes #constraints #could #did

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.


William J. Clinton


#constraint #growth #hire #inability #many

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.


Chanakya


#accomplish #due #his #knowledge #like

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.


Ken Follett


#american #among #before #communist #communists

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.


Thomas Jefferson


#another #bread #close #earned #free

I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.


Katherine Jenkins


#acid #alcohol #am #bad #ban

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.


Lewis Thomas


#about #along #behaviour #cloning #computer






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