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Education is the best provision for old age. -- Aristotle
Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life. -- Woodrow Wilson
Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence. -- Philip Sidney
IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow. -- Ambrose Bierce
Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies. -- James F. Byrnes
Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by. -- Laurie Colwin
Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution. -- John Ashcroft
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. -- Jonathan Swift
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it. -- Voltaire
I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan. -- Jacques Delors
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left. -- Robert Bork
And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government. -- Sharron Angle
Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions. -- Charles Wagner
The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States. -- Salmon P. Chase
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. -- Karl Kraus
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. -- James Madison
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things. -- Alexander Hamilton
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment. -- Buffalo Bill
Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions -- Hjalmar Branting
Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks. -- Paul Gillmor
What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense? -- Russ Feingold
I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever. -- William Shirley
My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you. -- Martin Van Buren
But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate. -- Jim McDermott
Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for his own well-being, or to spend his youth procuring pleasures in advance for that time of life when he will be too old to enjoy them. -- Giacomo Leopardi
I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace. -- Linda McCartney
When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees. As TSA has grown larger, more impersonal, and administratively top-heavy, I believe it is important that airports across the country consider utilizing the opt-out provision provided by law. -- John Mica
Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies. -- James Stephens
People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that. -- Bill Gates
Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of the Constitution. -- Laurence Tribe
It is by God's grace and provision that Hobby Lobby has endured. Therefore, we seek to honor God by operating the company in a manner consistent with biblical principles. -- David Green
Public-Private Partnership in financing, service delivery and provision of workspaces and training of trainers must be promoted to meet the demand and supply gap in the field of skill development. -- Pallam Raju
In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament. -- Tullian Tchividjian
We tend not to use the biggest resource in healthcare - the patients themselves. So I'm trying to figure out possible uses for digital technologies like Facebook but also real-life social networks to improve healthcare provision. -- Lucien Engelen
Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state. -- Lester B. Pearson
Rejecting the fundamental provision of the Civil Rights Act is a rejection of the foundational promise of America that all men and women should be treated equally, a promise for which many Americans have lost their lives. -- John Yarmuth
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense. -- John Warner
In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey. -- Venerable Bede
Every state in America has an end of life directive or durable power of attorney provision. For the peace of mind of your children and your spouse as well as the comfort of knowing the government won't make these decisions, it's a very popular thing. Just not everybody's aware of it. -- Johnny Isakson
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means. -- P. T. Barnum
You have two pages, that's the whole credit card agreement. The terms are clear and flat and easy to see so anyone can read them. So you could lay four credit cards in front of you and say, 'Oh, that's the one that has the highest rate, that's the one that has the really scary provision that could hurt me.' -- Elizabeth Warren
Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder. -- Jane Gardam
The provision is in the promises. -- Derek Prince
God's promise will bring your provision. -- John Hagee
Theology made no provision for evolution. -- E. O. Wilson
I'm getting rid of the carried interest provision. -- Donald Trump
Where God gives vision He always provides provision -- Joel Osteen
Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country. -- Michel de Montaigne
The first years of man must make provision for the last. -- Samuel Johnson
You make the decision with vision and god makes the provision. -- Mark Victor Hansen
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation -- Samuel Johnson
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization -- Samuel Johnson
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. -- Samuel Johnson
If we make provision for sinning tomorrow, we will be sinning tomorrow. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Nothing is more beautiful and romantic than when provision and purpose kiss. -- Matthew Ashimolowo
As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice. -- Michel de Montaigne
One of the greatest testimonials to God's love is His provision of His Word. -- Max Anders
Machismo makes no provision for preparing lunch, doing the laundry, or minding the baby. -- Mason Cooley
The provision of toilets is a minimum requirement for the dignity of our women. -- Narendra Modi
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. -- Aristotle
God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions. -- Jerry Bridges
NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life. -- Ambrose Bierce
Worship strengthens you. It gives you a sense of God's presence and ultimately His protection and provision. -- T. D. Jakes
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced. -- Barry Commoner
Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance. -- John Maynard Keynes
A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family. -- Benjamin Franklin
Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The drives were nature's first provision: thinking was added later, to get us around the world's obstacles to them. -- James Richardson
For the provision of God constantly to be at work in our lives we must activate the laws of God. -- Phil Pringle
It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed. -- Jean Cocteau
We must always keep in mind all legitimate authority is from God, and is given for protection, provision, and peace. -- John Bevere
The bread of such a nation (living godly) shall be in constant supply. Talking of abundance, provision, prosperity, surplus etc. -- Sunday Adelaja
We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government. -- Sharron Angle
Businesses large and small shouldn't have to check the expiration date of a tax provision to see if it's still good. -- Michael Enzi
Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine. -- Wes Smith
It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. -- Abraham Lincoln
Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christlike, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home. -- John Piper
So the effect of this Republican provision to allow doctors to be gagged from even discussing abortion with their patients is outrageous. -- Frank Lautenberg
Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence. -- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions. -- Bias of Priene
[It] is indispensable that some provision should be made for defending the Community agst [against] the incapicity, negligence or perfidy of the chief Magistrate. -- James Madison
In my opinion, provision of military support to illegal structures runs counter to the principles of modern international law and the United Nations Charter. -- Vladimir Putin
Peace requires the provision of a platform for discussion and the exchange of information on matters and activities relevant to the prevention of armed violence. -- Widad Akrawi
There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature. -- Maria Montessori
Look, at actual Republican and conservative think-tank proposals to replace ObamaCare all have the pre-existing condition provision in, done somewhat differently from [Barack] President Obama's. -- William Kristol
Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority. -- Thomas Jefferson
The failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated that liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve would not be sufficient to stop the crisis; substantial fiscal resources were necessary. -- Ben Bernanke
Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for provision of local needs. -- David Holmgren
It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years. -- Miles Franklin
I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours. -- Jonathan Swift
This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness -- David Platt
Just as water is the only thing that can relieve thirst in the desert, the provision of God's Word is the only thing that can satisfy our spiritual thirst. -- Jim George
[Clause in her will:] It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them. -- Joan Crawford
Public-Private Partnership in financing, service delivery and provision of workspaces and training of trainers must be promoted to meet the demand and supply gap in the field of skill development. -- Pallam Raju
The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do. -- Mal Peet
If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the creature instead of the Creator. -- Maximus the Confessor
Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate. -- Khalil Gibran
The principal House sponsor (of the Defense of Marriage Act), Bob Barr of Georgia has been married three times--which raises the question of why the act doesn't contain a three-strikes-and-you're-out provision. -- Frank Rich
Absolute justice demands that mens incomes and rewards should ... vary, and that some have more than others-so long as human justice is upheld by the provision of equal opportunity for all. -- Sayyid Qutb
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God? -- E. O. Wilson
I am not against the provision of the necessary medical assistance to Coloured and natives, because, unless they receive that medical aid, they become a source of danger to the European community. -- P. W. Botha
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency. -- Thomas Jefferson
War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war. -- Francois Rabelais
Food production is just one part of the repeated emphasis that you store a provision of food which will last for at least a year wherever it is legally permissible to do so. -- Ezra Taft Benson
The fact that we live in a world that moves crisis by crisis does not make a growing interest in outdoor activities frivolous, or ample provision for them unworthy of the nation's concern. -- John F. Kennedy
No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war? -- Daniel Webster
Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. But peace - peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that God's provision is everywhere - like air. -- Ann Voskamp
When ... I comprehended that poetry had no provision in it for ultimate practical attainment of the rightness of work that is truth, but led on ever only to a temporizing less- than-truth ... I stopped. -- Laura Riding
Experience assures us, that the efficacy of the provision has been greatly over-rated; and that some more adequate defense is indispensably necessary for the more feeble, against the more powerful members of the government. -- James Madison
Itâ??s clearly established in terms of training, provision of bomb-making experts, training of people with respect to chemical and biological warfare capabilities, that al-Qaeda sent personnel to Iraq for training and so forth. -- Dick Cheney
There are five main purposes of central bank cooperation"..."the provision of international credits and joint efforts to influence asset prices (especially gold and foreign exchange) in circumstances where this might be thought useful. -- William Smith White
It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provision for the belly, that being the basis and foundation of all operations -- Frederick the Great
Where a great proportion of the people are suffered to languish in helpless misery, that country must be ill policed, and wretchedly governed a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization -- Samuel Johnson
Establish that a Government may decline a provision for its debts, though able to make it, and you overthrow all public morality, you unhinge all the principles that must preserve the limits of free constitutions. -- Alexander Hamilton
The details of what the Fed did were kept secret until a provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that I sponsored required the Government Accountability Office to audit the Fed's lending programs during the financial crisis. -- Bernie Sanders

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