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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
Al FrankenAl Franken The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
Al FrankenAl Franken If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
Al FrankenAl Franken I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
Al FrankenAl Franken Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
Al FrankenAl Franken During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
Al FrankenAl Franken I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
Al FrankenAl Franken I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
Al FrankenAl Franken Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
Al FrankenAl Franken Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
Al FrankenAl Franken Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
Al FrankenAl Franken If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
Al FrankenAl Franken A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
Al FrankenAl Franken You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
Al FrankenAl Franken The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
Al FrankenAl Franken I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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We were dirt poor but we had each other. We didn’t need much to have a lot.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov One quick sip of your memory I let it slip, and I go on without you.
Emma SchippersEmma Schippers If the scars on my heart were visible to the naked eye, maybe you’d think twice about inflicting more.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney I am getting better at forgetting you. I am slowly but steadily learning the art of forgetting you.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia Paper and pen petrify me, for they pierce right through me, drawing deep blue blood, leaving me utterly cold.
Shreya JoshiShreya Joshi Spend time with people who get excited over even the smallest victories you earn.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis I wonder if you were the poison or the antidote.
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It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.
Uta HagenUta Hagen A lot of my colleagues actually yell and curse at each other. I don’t do that.
Ted CruzTed Cruz I’m proud to say like many of my colleagues in the Conservative Party I am fully behind Theresa May’s Brexit plans.
Liz TrussLiz Truss I have always thought it a great privilege to have as my colleague in the Palit Chair of Chemistry such a distinguished pioneer in scientific research and education in Bengal as Sir Prafulla Ray.
C. V. RamanC. V. Raman In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
E. O. WilsonE. O. Wilson I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
Alan DundesAlan Dundes There’s nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.
Alan ClarkAlan Clark Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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