Too much zeal offends where indirection works. - Euripides

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As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.

Euripides

Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

Offends, Persuasion, Too Much, Works, Zeal

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

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Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

Blow, Man, Men, Place, Wind, Yield

Leave no stone unturned.

Beer, Book, Leave, Stone, Unturned, Wisdom

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Life, Man, Power, Powers, Safest, Wise

God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.

Bring, Dominion, Events, Heaven, Inevitable

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No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

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Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life. . . Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted, we discover that it is all an illusion and nothing is there. Lust is a voyage to nowhere, to an empty land, but some men just love such voyages and never care about the destination. Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss.

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David Rolf

Most fast-food workers can't easily join a union, because they don't work directly for their parent company, such as McDonald's or Subway. Instead, they work for individual franchise owners, ensuring that each individual fast-food outlet would have to organize and win union recognition separately. So there's not one central employer to bargain with, as in a traditional union campaign.

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Michelle Malkin

Amazed, Media, Persistence, President, Stubborn

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I am very generous with my dealers in terms of the art that they have of mine. They all have a very good selection of work that they can work with. And it is up to them to find the dealers. I don't interfere with their selling.

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