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"Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls."
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"Lailah, always remember that you are light that bring illumination to many people across the world."
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"Do not surrender to the one that rules this world, you have the greater One in you."
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"Life can be spent in an atmosphere of continuous encouragement, you will ignore the complex and it will disappear."
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"Be an encourager not a pacifier."
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"We only need grace to get up, whenever we fall."
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"No matter what it is that you are going through in life at the moment, stay strong and positive with your daily thoughts. Leave everything else that is beyond your power in God's hand, and then relax and watch time heal your wounds."
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"The mentality of a believer is a mentality of a person who believes in the victory already provided by God even if it cannot be seen now."
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"Listen to me, you've got this. Seriously, you've got this."
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"We will understand that fear is not a special feature of human being, if we saw ourselves from the creator's point of view."
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"If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn."
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"In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith."
Faith
"What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes."
Money
"It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next."
Purpose
"Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them."
Power
"As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech."
Appearance
"If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along."
God
"This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle."
Ambition
"They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies."
Interest
"The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself."
Law
"In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard."
Money
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