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Knowledge is power.
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- A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
- Hang on, my kittens are scratching at the bathtub and they'll upset by the lack of biscuits.
- **This was again made clear in a House committee hearing today on Capitol Hill exploring housing market policy.**
- **We also wanted to investigate these young migrant workers' "awakening," an idea which after the Honda strike has been strongly promoted by the media and part of the academic communities, but is still highly debated.**
- No man was ever wise by chance
- **"But they argued in court papers that allowing inmates to pray together every day could pose a security threat and could ignite violence against Muslims by prisoners who follow other religions," they add.**
- **Barney Frank (D., Mass.) and Ron Paul (R., Texas) would remove the federal roadblock to state marijuana reform, and though the Republican House seems almost certain to reject it, the proposal deserves support from across the political spectrum.**
- **Advertisements boast its abilities to balance a woman’s pH and prevent odor and irritation.**
- **A rash of frugality-themed shows have premiered since 2009, from Pawn Queens to What the Sell!?.**
- **It seemed cumbersome, heavy-handed, and a tad humorless.**
- **This tally also doesn’t include the cost of lost wages, fast food, and other sundry needs, since those are too variable to predict.**
- **That’s one reason why Trump’s electoral coalition hasn’t yet grown large enough to eclipse Hillary Clinton’s.**
- **And in fact Thomas Jefferson said it's goodfor a country to have a revolution every 20 years.**
- The day you decide to do it is your lucky day.
- **This, as we've noted before, is melodramatic.**
- **Which is to say that even if the party remains determined for the time being to avoid being branded "pro-pot", a few up-and-comers making a move on legalization or decriminalization could be a fairly harmless way to improve their standing with younger voters.**
- **Unfortunately, S&P wasn't bluffing.**
- Practice makes perfect.
- **Someone will be there for the wrong ones.**
- **But he’s also among the most transparent.**
- **Not to mention, a committed, solid relationship that can grow and develop as the couple does, too.**
- **This year, prices have jumped with each extreme weather event.**
- **The new analysis shows that whites exceed their share of the national population in 263 House districts—fully three-fifths of the total number of seats.**
- **They're so obviously intertwined, but it seemed to make sense to differentiate them or to specify one or the other.**
- **"Starting today, hashtags will be clickable on Facebook," reads the official announcement from the social network. But really, Facebook users already employ the hashtag — and all of your complaining won't change that.**
- **The United States cannot win a war against a big and strong country. It can only annihilate a weak and relatively small country like Serbia or Iraq. It can also win a war in less than 24 hours against a tiny island like Grenada.**
- **You have to tell me exactly what I need to do.**
- **What is in the desk?**
- **None of it happened by accident.**
- **These include the why, when, and how of U.S.**
- **He was not at home, as is often the case with him.**
- The fog was as thick as pea soup. This was a problem. Gary was driving but couldn't see a thing in front of him. He knew he should stop, but the road was narrow so if he did, it would be right in the center of the road. He was sure that another car would end up rear-ending him, so he continued forward despite the lack of visibility. This was an unwise move.
- **My assumption was that Romney would be the nominee and would make a good run.**
- The secret of joy in work is contained in one word excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
- **Nixon loyalists have sound cause to argue, as he did at the time, that his faults and transgressions were but pale copies of those displayed by other presidents.**
- **There's still half of the way to go to get to the top of the mountain. Are you already tired?**
- **I suggest we go home by cab.**
- **And though there are many people in favor of parental choice, most do choose to vaccinate.**
- **Anxiety about the forward march of anti-democratic forces isn’t confined to Democrats.**
- The day had begun on a bright note. The sun finally peeked through the rain for the first time in a week, and the birds were sinf=ging in its warmth. There was no way to anticipate what was about to happen. It was a worst-case scenario and there was no way out of it.
- **"In 2014," he said, "we are well beyond the days when borders can be drawn over the heads of democratic leaders." Two things strike me about those quotes.**
- **Owing to grim ground realities, the UN has revised its Syria Humanitarian Assistance Response Plan, doubling its estimate for refugees to 4 million, and 6.8 million for internally displaced persons, by December.**
- The FWD.us poll was not Conway’s first work on immigration—she had been researching voters’ attitudes on the subject for decades.
- Despite these differences, there remain some valid lessons from the First Anglo-Afghan War.
- **This isn't a party.**
- **The rest of the tips are available in this handy, seemingly laminateable PDF.**
- **We had to walk all the way to the station.**
- **That year, Obama, whose first term saw record deportations, pledged to focus enforcement efforts on individuals that posed a threat to security.**
- **Jason Carter, a Georgia state senator and one of Jimmy Carter's 11 grandchildren, is officially going after his grandfather's pre-presidential job: the Georgia governorship.**
- **First there was the PR flap when it handed out a budgeting guide that suggested employees would need two jobs to survive.**