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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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