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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.


John Updike


#children #decided #education #equipped #fathers

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 enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.


John Cornyn


#both #distinguish #distorts #does #draw

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.


Alexis de Tocqueville


#business #control #equality #excessive #exclusive

Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.


Eugen Herrigel


#ahead #assuming #danger #his #increasing

I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.


David Ginola


#again #am #been #calf #climbing

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.


Martha Griffiths


#aid #alike #become #chance #fact

It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting.


Margaret Hamilton


#any #apply #like #restrained #subtle

Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about issues that really matter to families: job creation, spending restraint and economic development.


Nan Hayworth


#accepted #campaign #creation #development #economic

If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.


Clive Anderson


#chancellor #clutches #comes #depriving #escaping






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