We always honor our people when they die; we've got to honor them while we're still alive.
Biz Markie
Recitation: by Male by Female
I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung.
Jill Scott
TimeWordsPoetryThinkKnowSaid
There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.
John C. Calhoun
WisdomGovernmentActionEfficiency
When you're in a slump, you do something different, just to try it. I remember one time I was in a slump, and I borrowed one of Henry Aaron's bats and hit two homers. I used my own bats the next night. I just needed a change.
Joe Torre
ChangeTimeNightRememberYouTry
We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.
Joel Osteen
PeopleYouMercyMeanNeedGoing
The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.
John Cleese
WorldContributionEnglishCuisine
As we grow, we lift our gaze higher and higher, and then sometimes we are brought to our knees, but all is not lost; what we find on the ground can be very valuable and precisely what we need.
Michael Leunig
GrowFindLostSometimesLiftNeed
I don't want people to know how I am feeling because it makes you more vulnerable.
Logan Browning
I AmPeopleYouFeelingKnowWant
After almost half a billion dollars spent on the computer registration system for Obamacare, the website coughed, sputtered, and appeared to descend into an immediate coma as millions tried to log on. One reason is that the Obama administration never fully tested it.
Jonathan Turley
WebsiteNeverReasonSystemHalf
We need to provide support to those that are fighting ISIS. And we can provide that support: logistically, training, intelligence, air cover. There are many things we have already accomplished successfully. But the notion of sending in rotational troops, as we saw in Iraq in the past, and in Afghanistan, I think we have learned our lesson.
Dick Durbin
IntelligencePastTrainingSupport
And I can't wait to see where the road leads from here.
Dean Stockwell
WaitRoadSeeWhereHereLeads
In the ultimate analysis, all of us would have served Pakistan better if history and our future generations judge us positively.
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
FutureHistoryBetterJudgeAnalysis
I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
Alice Walker
EducationWomenHistoryMenYourself
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