With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
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“I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In Truth, none seem to have any Title to assert Human Nature to be necessarily and universally evil, but those whose own… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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“and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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Our fears have become a natural thing to us, we need to activate our faith and change our way of thinking! Don't… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and down? Human… — Mencius Copy Share Image
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To the love of pleasure we may therefore ascribe most of the agreeable, to the love of action we may attribute most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“-that unsleeping care which must have known that it could permit itself but one mistake; that alertness for measuring and weighing event… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Our sense of the full range of human nature, like our diet, has been steadily reduced. No matter how nourishing it might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You cannot write about what people are really like without making a political adjudication. All our ideas of what human nature consists… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
“There were two types of strong men: those like Uncle Monty and Abe Steinheim, remorseless about their making money, and those like… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Sound the tocsin of national peril and hordes of well-meaning folk with nothing much to do always materialize from nowhere. They itch… — Leslie McFarlane Copy Share Image
A lot of time I fight guys and after a few rounds, they accept my dominance. They aren't fighting to win anymore.… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
“I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law… — William Pickens Copy Share Image
The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
“We live in an era where everyone is terrified of being caught trying. So, the defense mechanism is to pretend you never… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
A LAW, by the very meaning of the term, includes supremacy. It is a rule which those to whom it is prescribed… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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My uncomfortable duty as a Christian is to confess the truth, so lethal to our self-centered human nature: 'Jesus, who suffered your… — Gordon Dalbey Copy Share Image
It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“his legacy, if there is one, is that I try to do my best to see people whole, for who they are… — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
“Original sin and conscious awareness of human fallibility is the perpetual agent of transformation in human affairs. Humankind’s behavior is pathological; it… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
It's human nature to want to keep going, but you have to fight against the "I'm just gonna keep doing it" when… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“Melancholy is an intimate aspect of human nature, while depression, like any other illness, creates fear and perplexity. Melancholy can displayed, depression… — Karin Johannisson Copy Share Image
Men and swords. My father said that if you put any able-bodied man, no matter how peaceful, into a room with a… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The incarnation of God is a necessity of human nature. If we reap and truly have a Father, we must be able… — Charles Deems Copy Share Image
Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image