I found during the course of my political career on the national scene there's a point where the vanity burns away and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances, but on the belief that it will, on… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In 1694 a law was passed "that every settler who deserted a town for fear of the Indians should forfeit all his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Living, now, had become not simple existence that one took for granted, but a bonus, a gift, with every day that lay… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
If we have free will, by definition we cannot be granted it. We can't be given it. My [-audio-recording-distorted-] paradox states that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Imagine an extrahuman observer looking at us. Such an extrahuman observer would be struck precisely by the uniformity of human languages, by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
And when we go to church, read our Bibles, have our quiet times, and go to Christian conferences, we too can build… — Richard Stearns Copy Share Image
We should feel with our whole heart that we have no one to rely on except God, and that from Him and… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
As an exercise in appreciation, try for one hour to feel grateful for every single thing you find yourself doing. When you… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders,… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government can make them safe from all… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Freedom and security are precious gifts that we, as Americans, should never take for granted. We must do all we can to… — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image
The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I can only wonder what astronauts must feel like or something like that when you're really in the space of silence and… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
Now, for the moment, we are safe. The only kind of international violence that worries most people in the developed countries is… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
That tendency of social thought to generalize, to describe a leading tendency in a society in such a way that it seems… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I don't take for granted all the blessings that I have, and as soon as I heard about Computers for Youth, I… — Bow Wow Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
To simplify things down to their real essence, whenever things go wrong in our lives, whenever our plans go awry and the… — Tony Clark Copy Share Image
A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators]… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have to try to watch myself and give myself feedback. People would take for granted that I was ready to go… — Cherien Dabis Copy Share Image
Water is one of the most basic of all needs - we cannot live for more than a few days without it.… — Robert Alan Aurthur Copy Share Image
I do not know if the doctrine that the nation-state arose in the 19th century was still being taught:;... but it is… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
FREEDOM CANNOT BE LICENSED, liberties cannot be regulated and rights cannot be granted. History teaches us that when the rights and liberties… — Steve Kubby Copy Share Image
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
I love an arcade. I love a boardwalk game. But I also love a rollercoaster. Though I think the rollercoaster love comes… — Melissa Rauch Copy Share Image
The question is not whether we wish to see everybody as well off as possible. Among men of good will such an… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We take for granted that we need to take showers, clean our house, and wash our clothes. Yet the mind and its… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
The decisions we make about the Internet don't affect just the Internet – they are answers to basic questions about the relationship… — Mike Godwin Copy Share Image
In most cases, to be reasonable means not to be obstinate, which in turn points to conformity with reality as it is.… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I still feel vibrant and alive that way. I'm in a marriage where we put an enormous amount into our marriage. I… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
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