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Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The people who, during the election, were so wise, so moral, so perfect, now have no tendencies whatever; or if they have… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
My efforts to prevent closing of the gold window-working through Connally, Volcker, and Shultz-do not seem to have succeeded. The gold window… — Arthur F. Burns Copy Share Image
University degrees are a bit like adultery: You may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't… — Baron Imbert Peter Imbert Copy Share Image
Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
[The blame for the future 'plight of civilization] must rest on scientific men, equally with others, for being incapable of accepting the… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
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... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
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Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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We perceive and interpret the outer world through a set of incredibly fine internal receptors. But we are incapable, by ourselves, of… — Max Kozloff Copy Share Image
If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
And the venality of those Judaized is incapable of explaining anti-Semitism as a social phenomenon, we will call it the anti-Semitic theory. — A. C. Cuza Copy Share Image
After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests. — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
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The American system itself is incapable. It is as incapable of producing freedom for the Afro-American as the system of a chicken… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
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