There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death. - Dave Eggers

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I believe that the issue of mental health services for our troops deploying or returning from combat is one that demands the attention of this body, if only for a few minutes today.

Dave Eggers

There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death.

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I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.

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How many times in life can we make decisions that are important but will not hurt anyone? Are we obligated- maybe we are- to say yes to any choice when no one will be hurt? We use the word hurt when talking about things like this because when these things go wrong it can feel as if you were hit in the sternum by a huge animal that's run for miles just to strike you.

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Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole.

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I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U. S.

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I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

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Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.

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Both President Kennedy and President Reagan were roundly criticized by parts of the foreign policy establishment that felt they were being weak by engaging our adversaries. So some of it is built into a political lexicon that makes you sound tougher if you don't talk to somebody, and rather, very loudly, wield a big stick.

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