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~ Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons we're now in so much trouble. ~

Stuart Symington

~ Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies. ~

Jim Clyburn

~ My poor sight gives me an advantage. I can't see the people in the audience who are scratching their heads while I am lost in my role and giving everything I have to the drama. ~

Maria Callas

~ My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage. ~

Joshua Chamberlain

~ Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license. ~

John Desmond Bernal

~ Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss. ~

Pat Riley

~ We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days. ~

Franklin D. Roosevelt

~ There has been a lot said about the sacredness of our land which is our body; and the values of our culture which is our soul; but water is the blood of our tribes, and if its life-giving flow is stopped, or it is polluted, all else will die and the many thousands of years of our communal existence will come to an end. ~

Frank Tenorio

~ Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals. ~

Harry Hay

~ Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. ~

Albert Einstein

~ Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos. ~

Mick Jagger

~ Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. ~

Simone Weil

~ Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. ~

Soren Kierkegaard

~ Giving up witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible ~

John Wesley

~ An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~

Irv Kupcinet

~ The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together; so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. ~

Francis Bacon, Sr.

~ Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. ~

Henry Van Dyke

~ We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others. ~

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

~ When it comes to giving—some people stop at nothing. ~

Anonymous

~ Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes. ~

Keith Henson

~ If your thinking is sloppy, your business will be sloppy. If you are disorganized, your business will be disorganized. If you are greedy, your empoyees will be greedy, giving you less and less of themselves and always asking for more. ~

Michael Gerbe

~ Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving. ~

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

~ A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ~

Franklin D. Roosevelt

~ My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share. ~

Rita Mae Brown

~ An ordinary man away from home giving advice. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures. ~

Stewart L. Udall

~ If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears. ~

Minquass

~ The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience. ~

Albert Camus

~ This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. ~

Aristotle

~ Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight. ~

Jalal Talabani

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