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"I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models."
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"Good things quickly become habitual and we often stop valuing them."
"You don't have to pay the sun to rise, the moon to shine, and the stars to glow."
"Life can only be live with grace and gratitude."
"Embrace the sweetness of life like a gift honeycomb from the hive."
"God appreciates ordinary people."
"Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent."
"Until I saw Chardin's painting I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house in the half-cleared table in the corner of a tablecloth left awry in the knife beside the empty oyster shell."
"Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it."
"I have nothing to compain about. I am here to enjoy the breathtaking beauty of nature."
"Notice how extraordinary your life truly is. It's filled with love. Open your heart to it."
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"Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow."
"When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s."
"I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects."
"From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor."
"This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do."
"Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled."
"In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties."
"While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good."
"Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006."
"It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour."
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