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  • Whenever I write a letter to a family who has lost a loved one in Iraq, or read an email from a constituent who has dropped out of college because her student aid has been cut, I'm reminded that the actions of those in power have enormous consequences--a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Writing Quotes , Cutting Quotes
  • In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate headquarters. And there would be an inventory pileup. And then - bam - businesses would react, sometimes violently, by cutting production.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Blinder Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Would Be Quotes
  • If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Allies Quotes
  • Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Stars Quotes , Cutting Quotes
  • Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath but covers it like a lid, which flat bodies evidently do: for they are hard to move even for the winds, on account of their resistance.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Moving Quotes , Cutting Quotes
  • If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper-middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks constitutes a national and race danger which is impossible to exaggerate. I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed before another year has passed.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Race Quotes
  • If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve. Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Laozi Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Hands Quotes
  • My voice is the only material thing in which I can still reveal myself. Go ahead and cut off the hand or the testicles of a voice. Try to find the head of a voice, the orifice through which it passes, or even the breasts to which you can attach the clips of your electrodes. Nothing. Resonant tooth.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abdellatif Laabi Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Hands Quotes