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The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Think about this some of us actively fighting to remove Saddam Hussein don't agree with the cause themselves, but they're doing their… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Possibilities are like the wings of birds; they allow man to soar and to climb to the heavens. And facts are like… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The internet did not exist when I started out, the fact that bands can build a website and get all their information… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
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We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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We think that we live in a heterosexual society because most men are fixated on women as sexual objects; but, in fact,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
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You surely can't be trying to blame us for Erak's habit of charging ashore waving an axe and grabbing everything that isn't… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
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Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Sometimes the facts of the crime are so distracting - there's been some tragic murder or horrific incident, and people aren't required… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
European peace movement felt that the deployment of these missiles on European soil, on German soil would be a very great danger… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
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I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, "Thus far and… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Science is not sacrosanct. The mere fact that it exists, is admired, has results is not sufficient for making it a measure… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
You can have a strong economy or you can help the environment, but you can't do both at the same time. That's… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
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