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I promise by my conscience and honor to faithfully fulfill the obligations of the office of president of the government with loyalty… — Pedro Sanchez Copy Share Image
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[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
You must keep your honor! You can't speak for the country; you can do little about the national economy or actions of… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
There is hardly an aspect of contemporary history more irritating and mystifying than the fact that of all the great unsolved political… — Hannah Copy Share Image
Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture… — Faith Evans Copy Share Image
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I've gathered some of my close musical and comedian friends, and we're going to see if we can't bring a few laughs… — Ron White Copy Share Image
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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God,… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he will love… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
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In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Typically, people allow differences and mistakes to lower their respect and value for other people. But you know the pillar of honor… — Danny Silk Copy Share Image
I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Man's birth is a lottery; it may be in the pleasant home of ease and affluence, or in the hut of poverty;… — James Ellis Copy Share Image