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In millions of encounters each year between the police and the public, it may be too much to expect that every officer will always get it right. But it is not too much to expect that we can put the right safeguards in place to hold officers accountable when they get it wrong.
Rahm Emanuel
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Too much may be the equivalent of none at all.


Lee Loevinger
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
Will Durant
Tags: Time You People
A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your job, you know? Eat. And I do!
Alton Brown
Tags: Good Best Diet
Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come foregrounded too much, it stops being fiction and starts being poetry - something more concrete and out of time.
Eleanor Catton
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You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.
Luigi Pirandello
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Today, technology asks too much of people.


Chad Hurley
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.
Sylvia Kristel
Tags: Think More Life
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.


A. A. Milne
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I talk too much. I eat too much.


Willard Scott
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
Bart Gordon
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Why do people get upset when Christians say there is only one way to Heaven? Shouldn't those who follow a particular religion believe its doctrine to be true?
Monica Johnson
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The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.


Ronald Reagan
It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.
Dirk Bogarde
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What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel's heart.
Charles Spurgeon
Tags: Good Death Our
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People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.


Nate Silver
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It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they're destined to be.
Michelle Yeoh
Tags: You Your Love
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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