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I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.

John Irving

If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don’t have one. But we are a country – USA – that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.
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Country Religious Running
They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other…. or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.
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Kind Thinking Together
Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
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Decision Finals Unnecessarily
As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.
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Activity Bad Temper
How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.
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Eyes Love People Things
People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
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People Sound Trying
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
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Centered Religion Self
My life is a reading list.
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Life Lists Reading
I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.
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Be Kind Bird Rhinos
Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president’s particular agenda – and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.
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Agendas Blind Presidential
I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.
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Country Hopeful Thinking
There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.
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Four Negotiation Years
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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Alive Hero Trying
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
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Beginning Ends Grows Growth
I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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Believe Children Church
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready

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