Dick Thornburgh Quotes

The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.

Dick Thornburgh

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GovernmentLawConsentOnlyLocally

I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

Jimmy Carter

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The usual justification for eating extra meals is that it keeps the metabolism 'revved up' so that weight loss is easier. There is, however, very little hard evidence that supports this idea, and a fair amount that disputes it.

Andrew Weil

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In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

John Millington Synge

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It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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The strong arm of government should not force Americans to buy health-care products that they have reasoned objections to.

Jeff Fortenberry

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When you play angry, you can't focus.

Metta World Peace

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Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

Storm Jameson

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You can't eat cake and lose weight.

Tom Perez

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In the restaurant business, there's the concept of pivot. Pivot to the stove, pivot to the refrigerator.

Tom Douglas

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TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.

Lucille Ball

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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

Art Blakey

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I was lucky that my parents listened to really good music. My dad loved Kris Kristofferson.

Ashley McBryde

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