There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I wrote poems and an essay about that weird language. We still remember it to a certain extent, and it still comes… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ...… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
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There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself. — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
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Out in the Pool certain other boats caught the eye... each carried a bright fire amidships, in a brazier, beside a man,… — Arthur Morrison Copy Share Image
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The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important. — David Elliott Copy Share Image
One reason there are so many short-lived management fads is that their prescriptions were derived and advocated in precisely this way. So… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Make certain decisions only once . . . We can make a single decision about certain things that we will incorporate in… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
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Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent.… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, 'But who is to support the children?' It… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
But we do now receive a certain portion of His Spirit, tending towards perfection, and preparing us for incorruption, being little by… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
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In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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It's partly the fault of the institutions of education. But it's partly the decision to be relieved of responsibility. Literature is simply… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as nature undergoes… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
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