A Quote by Monica Edwards
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
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I'm dealing with Mexico, I'm dealing with Argentina. We were dealing in this case with Mike Flynn. All this information gets put into The Washington Post and The New York Times, and I'm saying, what's going to happen when I'm dealing on the Middle East? We've got to stop it. That's why it's a criminal penalty.
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Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth.
Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.
Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.
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