Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, … - Paul Sarbanes

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I spend so much time on the Internet. . . I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.

Paul Sarbanes

Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor.

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I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.

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America's Older Americans add great value to our Nation.

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That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.

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Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk.

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Gustave Flaubert

As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then there are the storms that break off several branches at one go. And while nature’s greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back.

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You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.

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Novalis

The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.

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