... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever:… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
While most trudge through their days straight-jacketed in the social compact, living for others as much as or more than for themselves,… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Because of my compact and muscular body composition, my short hair, and my "Johawk," I have been mistaken for a boy on… — Joanna Lohman Copy Share Image
It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of… — Susannah McCorkle Copy Share Image
The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty. — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of… — William Falconer Copy Share Image
America was good enough to make a small compact lighter weight nuclear weapon. The Russians still had these big clunky heavy ones,… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Life, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
The increasing remoteness of consanguinity is everyday diminishing the force of the family compact between France and Spain. And politicians have ever… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really. — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas - developed by Euler from a discovery of… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work… — John Hollander Copy Share Image
Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war. — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil… — George Washington Copy Share Image
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