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straighten

«I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.»
«This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.»
«If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.»
«When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.»
«I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.»
«If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.»
«When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.»
«You can straighten a worm, but the crook is in him and only waiting»
«Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.»