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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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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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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We have a tough, tough people, ... We party hard, we work hard ... we know we can get through this.
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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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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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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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The entire Gulf Coast suffered, but Louisiana bore the brunt of this disaster.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Start making preparations to leave now ... Prepare your family, prepare your house for evacuation.
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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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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 is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
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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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There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.
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We keep getting reports in some places that maybe water is coming over the levees. We heard a report, unconfirmed, I think, we have not breached the levee. I think we have not breached the levee at this time.
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