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“It has been an honor to work in the Barack Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.”

Years Has Beens Stills Two Government President Wife Middle Return Honor Periods Promise My Wife East Administration Two Years Middle East I Promise Unprecedented

Author:Dennis A. Ross

“He should release the tax returns tomorrow. It's crazy. You've got to release six, eight, ten years back tax returns. Take the hit for a day or two. He has to give a big speech in defense of capitalism, and that will elevate, I think, this race above this tactical back and forth, which I do think he's on the margin of losing.”

Thinking Giving Should Years Two Bigs Race Crazy Return Tomorrow Republican Ten Taxes Speech Six Losing Capitalism Eight Defense Release Back And Forth Margins Tactical Tax Returns

Author:William Kristol

“There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.”

Humans Two Sin Return Majors Paradise Impatience Indolence

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“My life is about my journey, and your life is about your journey. You are completely unqualified to draw my map, and I am completely unqualified to draw yours. I hope you'll let me know all about the path you've found, so that I may judge it for myself against my own path, and have the freedom to choose between the two. But please don't try and drag me from my path on to yours, and I will be sure to return the favor.”

Knows Life Trying May Two Life Is Found My Own Path Journey Judging Return Please Draws Let Me Favors Maps Drag My Journey Freedom To Choose Unqualified

Author:Derek R. Audette

“The soul's first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.”

Feels Firsts Humans Two Ideas Soul Earth Form Desire Fighting Wish Adventure Return Human Form

Book:Self-realization Magazine

Source: Self-realization Magazine

“I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.”

Thinking Love Two Used Return Foolish Supreme Romantic Love Foolishness Neurosis

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“We have more than two options. A critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power. Our problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others.”

Doe Two Reason Problem Lying Values Quality Return Function Absolutes Treatment Superstitions Balanced Arbitrary Positively Critique Obsessive Two Options

Author:John Ralston Saul

“That the legislative and executive powers of the State should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burdens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections, in which all, or any part of the former members, to be again eligible, or ineligible, as the laws shall direct.”

“What stands most explicitly as critique in Nietzsche's late work in not a development from earlier interests but a return to two problems of enduring personal involvement for him, those of Wagner and of Christianity. Der Antichrist , to take one case, is not a response to a resuscitating public interest in Christian religion; it is primarily a renewed attempt to resolve for himself the question of piety.”

Two Problem Christian Interest Christianity Cases Development Return Late Response Endure Resolve Involvement Piety Critique Antichrist Public Interest Wagner

Author:John Carroll

“We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little hall of Philadelphia. In the days following World War II, when the economic strength and power of America was all that stood between the world and the return to the dark ages, Pope Pius XII said, 'The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.' We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth.”

“The plan was for Jesus to come to Earth two thousand years ago with a pocketful of miracles and souls for the people who were then alive. After his return to heaven from Earth he is going to build those mansions, come back before his generation dies out, finally put an end to the world which has been such a rotten disappointment, and deposit most of these souls in hell. No wonder heaven is only 12,000 furlongs wide, long, and high.”

“We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where men from the farthest dominions of earth Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions; Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right, Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight; Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.”

Source: The microcosm, and other poems

“Sixty thousand blacks are annually embarked from the coast of Guinea, never to return to their native country; but they are embarked in chains: and this constant emigration, which, in the space of two centuries, might have furnished armies to overrun the globe, accuses the guilt of Europe and the weakness of Africa.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order: there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people's money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.”

People Two Ends Order Evil Sound Progress Return Investment Investing Credit Currency Strict Banking Speculation Adequate Provision Supervision Resumption

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“To triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory, when evil is returned. After the first victory, evil would die if the second victory did not infuse it with new life.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Two Happens Dies Evil Return Victory Deeds Triumph New Life Theologian Perpetrators Protestantism Infusion

Book:The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World

Source: The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World

“Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity, which makes it return. The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is also reading and recitation: participation. The poet creates it; the people, by recitation, re-create it. Poet and reader are two moments of a single reality.”

Source: The Bow and the Lyre: The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History

“Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause “the West is the best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure, the climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the great white North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.”

“Now, once again, we find ourselves facing rising gas prices, and the question is: This time, are we going to learn from the past? Are we finally going to get serious about energy conservation? Of course not! We have the brains of mealworms! So we need to get more oil somehow. As far as I can figure, there's only one practical way to do this. That's right: We need to clone more dinosaurs. We have the technology, as was shown in two blockbuster scientific movies, Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park Returns with Exactly the Same Plot. Once we have the dinosaurs, all we need is an asteroid.”

“In masturbation there is nothing but loss. There is no reciprocity. There is merely the spending away of a certain force, and no return. The body remains, in a sense, a corpse, after the act of self-abuse. There is no change, only deadening. There is what we call dead loss. And this is not the case in any act of sexual intercourse between two people. Two people may destroy one another in sex. But they cannot just produce the null effect of masturbation.”

Source: Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.”

Ifs Littles Two Care Wish Voice Return One Day Hundred Advantage Perfection Take Care Defects Flattery Flatterer

Book:Gulistan or Rose Garden

Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden

“I had a fan who had a fictional relationship with me. She wrote letters to me and then wrote return letters to herself (from me). In her mind, we were married and had two children. Her parents finally uncovered this delusional life she was living and she got help.”

Mind Children Two Helping Parent Fans Return Married Letters Delusional

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“There are two kinds of death, the death which is inevitable and common to all beings, and the death which is voluntary and particular to certain ones of them only. It is the second death which is prescribed for us in the words of the Messenger of Allah: "Die before you die." The resurrection is accomplished for him who dies this voluntary death. His affairs return to God and they are but one. He has returned to God and he sees Him through Him. As the Prophet said - on him be Grace and Peace!”

Kind Said Two Certain Dies Peace Common Grace Particular Return Affair Inevitable Prophet Accomplished Resurrection Messengers Turn To God

Author:Abdelkader El Djezairi

“I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.”

Wells Two Home Might Parent Return Chicago Elsewhere Old Friends Hometown Going Home Two Homes

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“You took me to adventure and to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I stand at the gate of the paddock watching you run in an ecstasy of freedom, knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally, beside me.”

Two Running Joy Knowing Adventure Return Sorrow Horse Gates Ecstasy Great Joy Equine Great Horse

Author:Pam Brown

“The four horsemen of the prairie are tornado, locust, drought, and fire, and the greatest of these is fire, a rider with two faces because for everything taken, it makes a return in equal measure.”

Two Faces Taken Fire Four Return Equal Riders Drought Prairie Tornadoes Horsemen Four Horsemen

Book:PrairyErth: A Deep Map

Source: PrairyErth: A Deep Map

“You know the troubles I've had with my two older children. I can't understand why it turned out so badly. I tried to give them everything. I loved them and tried to keep them near me, even when they didn't return my love. Well, I couldn't make them love me, but they could have shown some respect. I couldn't insist on love, but I could insist on respect.”

Knows Giving Wells Children I Can Two Trouble Return

Author:Joan Crawford

“As I said, there are two approaches-first, a strong economy, stability and helping families or, secondly, the Tory cuts, the undermining of stability, and a return to the boom and bust of the 1990s.”

Firsts Said Two Helping Strong Economy Cutting Return Approach Stability Undermining Strong Economy

Author:Alistair Darling

“When preparing your return, you should be sure to avoid common mistakes. The two most common taxpayer mistakes, states the IRS booklet, are (1) "failure to include a current address," and (2) "failure to be a large industry that gives humongous contributions to key tax-law-writing congresspersons."”

Giving Should Writing Two States Law Common Mistake Keys Industry Return Taxes Currents Contribution Addresses Preparing Taxpayers Irs

Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.”

Humans Two Turns Given Sin Return Accounts Driven Paradise Impatience Cardinals Deviate Nonchalance

Author:Franz Kafka

“We regard using [a stock's] volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return. Some great businesses have very volatile returns - for example, See's [a candy company owned by Berkshire] usually loses money in two quarters of each year - and some terrible businesses can have steady results.”

Years Two Loses Loss Results Company Risk Example Return Terrible Permanent Nuts Quarters Steady Candy Inadequate Great Business Volatility

Author:Charlie Munger

“I was in total shock. I work so close [to home] that I figured I'd return to work and the baby nurse would bring the baby to me, and I'd run home periodically, and I'd make it work. But every two hours? That's a whole other level. I'll have to make a nursery at the office.”

Two Whole Home Running Hours Levels Baby Return Office Shock Nurse Nursery

Author:Ivanka Trump

“Magic is a two-way process: you use it to change yourself and in return, it changes you. Letting yourself enter a magical reality is not about creating an enclave of magic beyond your everyday life, but of allowing magic in- allowing for the intrusion of the weird, the irrational, the things you can't explain, yet are undeniably real.”

Way Two Real Use Reality Process Magic Return Creating Everyday Allowing Irrational Everyday Life Two Ways Intrusion Change Yourself

Author:Phil Hine

“Whatever is newly expensive has two attributes: wonderful past returns and, in most cases, lousy future returns.”

Two Past Cases Wonderful Return Expensive Attributes

Author:Robert D. Arnott

“So if Hillary [Clinton] is elected president, it will make history in two ways. She'll be the first woman president. And Bill Clinton, he'll be the first man and the first former president to return to the White House in the capacity of spouse.”

Ifs Men Way Firsts Two House President White Return Capacity Bills Clinton Former White House Spouse Two Ways

Author:Terry Gross

“Anyone who's ever filed a tax return or visited the Department of Motor Vehicles understands that government does two things well: spend our money and waste our time.”

Wells Doe Two Government Return Taxes Waste Our Time Two Things Department Vehicle Motor Tax Returns Motor Vehicles

Author:Edwin Feulner

“Now the Japanese companies are more focused on that. To have two independent directors - I think it's good to have outside people look at you and think of what you could be doing better. Those are voluntary, but most of the companies told me they're going to do it. And I think it's good for them to say our returns on equity, for example, should be higher. Also, I think some could be more ambitious.”

People Thinking Should Looks Two Company Example Return Higher Directors Independent Focused Ambitious Equity

Author:Jamie Dimon

“Back in March, before Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination for president, a group of national security heavyweights signed an open letter that called Trump fundamentally dishonest and utterly unfit for the presidency. Now, two days after Trump's victory, some in the national security establishment are wondering whether to return to the fold.”

Two President Wonder Groups Security Return Trump Victory Republican Letters March Establishment Presidency National Security Folds Two Days Secured Nominations Heavyweights

Author:Ari Shapiro

“Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist.”

Two Humor Funny Return Missionary Cds Dutch

Author:Emo Philips

“A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!”

Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ

“It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two love, it is the loving of each other, that originates and perfects and assures their blessedness. I knew that love gives to him that loveth, power over any soul beloved, even if that soul know him not, bringing him inwardly close to that spirit; a power that cannot be but for good; for in proportion as selfishness intrudes, the love ceases, and the power which springs therefrom dies. Yet all love will, one day, meet with its return.”

Ifs Knows Giving Two Soul Spirit Dies Return One Day Spring Cease Selfishness Proportion Being Loved Blessedness Two Loves

Author:George MacDonald

“The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness... The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy. The dear, stupid body is easily satisfied as a spaniel. And, incredibly, the simple spaniel can lure the brawling mind to its dish. It is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious mind will hush if you give it an egg.”

“it is my lady! *sighs* o, it is my love! o, that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she sais nothing. what of that? her eye discourses; i will answer it. i am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks; two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return.”

Two Eye Speak Heaven Stars Answers Return Spheres Her Eyes Discourse Sigh Juliet Romeo And Juliet Juliet Romeo And Juliet Romeo Romeo And Juliet Love

Book:The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the text of Johnson, Steevens, and Reed: With the preface of Dr. Johnson, and a copious glossary. Complete in 1 volume

Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the text of Johnson, Steevens, and Reed: With the preface of Dr. Johnson, and a copious glossary. Complete in 1 volume

“Go back and rid the word of that book. Fill it with words before spring comes, or winter will never end for you. And I will take not only your life for the Adderhead's but your daughter's, too, because she helped you bind the book. Do you undersand, Bluejay" Why two?" asked Mo hoarsely. "How can you ask for two lives in return for one?”

Two Book Ends Asks Return Spring Daughter Winter Your Daughter Two Lives

Author:Cornelia Funke

“Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of dignity we have not known for two thousand years. Yes, today was the first step back. My battle is done. Now I turn the command over to the soldiers.”

People Thinking Years Firsts Two Done Today Turns Chance Known Steps Forever Heard Return Battle Thousand Shots Dignity Soldier Command First Steps Thousand Years Statues Turning Points

Author:Leon Uris

“- Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise? She shook her head. - That my admiration for you is painfully strong? - I want Van – she cried – and not intangible admiration. - Intangible? You goose. You my gauge it, you may brush it once very lightly with the knuckles of you gloved hand. I said knuckles. I said once. That will do. I can't kiss you. Not even your burning face. Good-bye, pet. Tell Edmond to take a nap after he returns. I shall need him at two in the morning.”

“Even when all the paperwork-a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns-clearly indicates you're an adult, but all the same, there you are, clutching the phone and thanking God that you're still somebody's daughter.”

Years Stills Two Return Birth Taxes Daughter Adults Seven Phones Deeds Thank God License Seven Years Certificates Paperwork Birth Certificate Tax Returns

Author:Kelly Corrigan

“Husbands are not Christ. But they are called to be like him. And the specific point of likeness is the husband's readiness to suffer for his wife's good without threatening or abusing her. This includes suffering to protect her from any outside forces that would harm her, as well as suffering disappointments of abuses even from her. This kind of love is possible because Christ died for both husband and wife. Their sins are forgiven. Neither needs to make the other suffer for sins. Christ has borne that suffering. Now as two sinful and forgiven people we can return good for evil.”

People Needs Wells Kind Two Suffering Evil Force Christ Sin Love Is Wife Return Protect Husband Abuse Died Disappointment Harm Forgiven Threatening Husband And Wife Readiness Kinds Of Love

Author:John Piper