It’s not just absolute power that the Founders sought to prevent. Implicit in its structure, in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth, the infallibility of any idea or ideology or theology or “ism, ” any tyrannical consistency that might lock future generations into a single, unalterable course, or drive both majorities and minorities into the cruelties of the Inquisition, the pogrom, the gulag, or the jihad. The Founders may have trusted in God, but true to the Enlightenment spirit, they also trusted in the minds and senses that God had given them. They were suspicious of abstraction and liked asking questions, which is why at every turn in our early history theory yielded to fact and necessity. . Barack Obama
I'm Razo, a member of Bayern's Own, " he said, stopping himself from adding "Loafing is just a hobby of mine."" Bayern's Own? But you're a child." Razo looked up to the sky. "I'm not a child, I'm just short.
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Shannon Hale
The height of your success will be measured with reference to the depth from which you started.
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Israelmore Ayivor
Although I understand that all days are equal with 24 hours each, most of us agree that Friday is the longest day of the week and Sunday the shortest!
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D.S. Mixell
Steps can then be taken to slow down the natural progression before it gets started. It doesn't work to allow all the preliminary intimacies and then hope to stop the progression just short of intercourse. Very few people have the willpower to do that.
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James C. Dobson
Raw power without Godly obedience is a long walk off a short conscience.
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
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