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Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are more important than whether or not I'm going to be governor.

~Bill Scott

Topics: Avoid Breakdown Criminal Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Going Governor Important Justice Lake Michigan More Our Save System Than Whether

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Schools alone are not to blame for underachievement. The breakdown of the family, poverty, and decaying cities with eroding tax bases have made a good public school education nearly impossible in many parts of the country.

~Bob Beckel

Topics: Alone Bases Blame Breakdown Cities Country Education Family Good Impossible Made Many Nearly Parts Poverty Public Public School School Schools Tax

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My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous man who ran a shop in Dundee giving a lot of people tick. When he died, a lot of people hadn't paid their bills, so he died with a lot of debt. After he died, my mother went doolally.

~Brian Cox

Topics: After Aged Bills Breakdown Chic Debt Died Father Generous Giving Had He Lot Man Molly Mother Nervous Nervous Breakdown Paid People Ran Shop Tick Very Who

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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.

~Campbell Brown

Topics: Breakdown Breaking Britney Britney Spears Coverage Death Interested Jackson Latest Michael News Spears Time Topics Were

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I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.

~Caroline Leavitt

Topics: Albeit Bad Bad Boy Behind Boy Breakdown Broken Charismatic First First Love Had He Hearts Him Left Love Me Nervous Nervous Breakdown String Typical

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

~Charles Evans Hughes

Topics: Believe Breakdown Hard Hard Work Hours Long Long Hours Men Overwork Work Work Hard Worry I Believe I Believe In

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After 9/11, there was so much distress in America that it led to an inter-cultural breakdown. Some of our communities were targeted. Many of our adults shut themselves off from other cultures. I tried to bring children of Indian and other cultures together in my literature.

~Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Topics: Adult After America Breakdown Bring Children Communities Cultures Distress Indian Led Literature Many Much Off Other Our Shut Some Targeted Themselves Together Tried Were I Tried

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Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Birth Breakdown Concealing Crisis Effect Moral New Order Presenting Progressive Rhetoric Social Them

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In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and healthy pursuits, was prescribed as a cure. Wister was immediately smitten by the taciturn cowboys and the rules imposed upon them by the cattle barons.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Breakdown Cattle Cowboys Cure Had Healthy Immediately Imposed Like Named Nervous Nervous Breakdown Prescribed Pursuits Rules Smitten Something Spaces Them Wyoming

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Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house.

~Cynthia Weil

Topics: Barry Because Breakdown Build Building Having House Middle Midst Nervous Nervous Breakdown Were You

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