A promise made is a debt unpaid. - Robert W. Service

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Drugs are available to those who want them. And where are those profits going? Into organized crime, [to criminals] who spend their profits on the destruction of whole societies.

Robert W. Service

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Betrayal, Debt, Promise, Trust, Truth, Unpaid

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Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Big, Conserve, Energies, Inspirational, Shoes, Success

Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go.

Breaths, Brief, Heaven, Kindness, Make

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Adversity, Ahead, Anger, Climbing, Mountain, Wears

There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.

Break, Crest, Heart, Know, Men, Travel

The trails of the world be countless, and most of the trails be tried; You tread on the heels of the many, till you come where the ways divide;And one lies safe in the sunlight, and the other is dreary and wan,But you look aslant at the Lone Trail, and the Lone Trail lures you on.

Lone, Looks, Lying, Till, Trails, World

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We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country.

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Without public pressure from caring people, our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse.

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