In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.
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Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.
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The entire Gulf Coast suffered, but Louisiana bore the brunt of this disaster.
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At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again, ... The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.
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I know the pain Oliver is in, and I know the pain our citizens are in, ... We just have to keep on asking for patience and asking them to endure, even more than they have already endured. These people coming in have been in stress since Monday. It is Saturday. Our heart goes out to them.
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None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.
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Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
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When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?
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We have a tough, tough people, ... We party hard, we work hard ... we know we can get through this.
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These are some of the 40,000 extra troops that I have demanded, ... They have M-16s, and they're locked and loaded ... I have one message for these hoodlums: These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so if necessary, and I expect they will.
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If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.
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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
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At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.
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... wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom.
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Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
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Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
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... disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
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They've been running buses in through the night. We're going to get them out, either by boat, lift them out by helicopter, or if we can walk them to the buses, we'll do it. Whatever is necessary, whatever measure is necessary is what we'll do.:
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You aren't too bright, are you? I like that in a man.
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The communications network is completely gone, ... We think there may be only one major way into the city right now.
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Start making preparations to leave now ... Prepare your family, prepare your house for evacuation.
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Quality education is the measure of strong and healthy communities, ... If we really expect a rebirth in the City of New Orleans, a quality public school system is absolutely essential.
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We pray that the loss of life is very limited, but we fear that is not the case.
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people are going to have to draw on their inner strength like we've never, ever had to do before. It's going to be, in some neighborhoods, total rebuilding.
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Why is it easier to walk away in high heels?
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Changing husbands is only changing troubles.
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There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.
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There was not a single individual taking a slow step in our state,
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At this point in time, know where you are going to go and how you are going to get there,
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