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Obama dreams of a society without power relations, without the agonism that constitutes political life. Against such a position one might assert… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, was meant to inhibit only the federal government, not the states.… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal… — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
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I began to think about the extent to which nude and semi-nude female bodies are commonplace in our present day culture and… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Marie clasped her hands together and looked vulnerable. Payne flinched. “The only time you don’t tell me something is when you think… — Phil Foglio Copy Share Image
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said any assumption that the US would not use force against North Korea would be a mistake.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The other side of my work is political disappointment - the realization that we are living in an unjust world. "Blood is… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Everyone has issues they are passionate about, they care about. Step up, do something that you know absolutely you can achieve. We… — Nick Begich Copy Share Image
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Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass… — William James Copy Share Image
[Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even… — Hudson Gurney Copy Share Image
You don’t see many of these white anti-abortion women volunteering to have any black fetuses transplanted into their uterus’s, do you? No,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in… — George Combe Copy Share Image
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As for a fantasy life, working women are more likely to fantasize about finding the perfect child care provider who she can… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance. Never settle for the path of least resistance. Livin' might mean takin'… — Lee Ann Womack Copy Share Image
We fell in love with different people. Looking back, we might have done it in a different order, but we got invested.… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
Witches, wolves, and moral friend There is horror that does not end War is waged and battles fought But have you stopped… — Nancy Holder Copy Share Image
I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantaloupe,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When you're a mayor and you have a problem you blame the provincial government. If you are provincial government and you have… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
I'm trying to educate people about things that I believe are right, and some of the things that I believe are right… — James McBride Copy Share Image
She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The thrill of science is the process. It's a social process. It's a process of collective discovery. It's debate, it's experimentation and… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Anybody who French bashes just might as well wear a badge that says 'I am a follower! I don't think for myself… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The kinds of claims I make about knowledge are thus meant to be illustrative of a general argumentative strategy which might well… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
If you want to be the popular one at a party, here's a good thing to do: Go up to some people… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
If you're traveling for five years or something like that, you're going somewhere. But five years are being used up, and you… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Children need far more than basic skills in reading, writing, and math, as important as those might be. Children also need to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The universe has its secrets. Extra dimensions of space might be one of them. If so, the universe has been hiding those… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image