#vices

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. ↗

— Merle Shain

#clothes #gowns #hide #robes #small

Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#active #family #family planning #funded #get

In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#balance #budgets #cutting #difficult #districts

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#cannot #contraceptive #low-income #many #own

Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors. ↗

— Bob Taft

#american dream #base #communities #depends #dream

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#bad #becomes #darkness #deep #entangled

At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills. ↗

— James Douglas

#economic #economic recession #even #greater #having

I'm trying to figure out how someone could live in a brothel for a month and not notice. You must be terribly dull-witted." Tessa glared. "If it helps at all, it seemed to be quite a high-class establishment. Nicely furnished, fairly clean..." "Sounds as if you've visited your fair share of brothels," Tessa said, sourly. "Making a study of them?" "More of a hobby," said Will, and smiled like a bad angel. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-angel #tessa-gray #the-infernal-devices #will-herondale #wit

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-prince #infernal-devices #madness #misery #tessa-gray

The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #the-infernal-devices #magnus-bane