What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back as it is grief at not being able to want to do so
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Time has no divisions to mark its passing. There is never a thunderstorm to announce the beginning of a new month or year.Thomas Mann
It's not a pretty sight up on Capitol Hill these days. It's unusual to get so many major events packed in a single week. Of course, that wasn't the plan.
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It's amazing what a 38 job approval rating will do. Republicans are terrified that they're going to lose their majority.
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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
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The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
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