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Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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There is nothing disastrous in the temporary nature of our ideas. They are always that. But there may very easily be a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
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Just as a husband cannot be indulgent of adultery in his wife, so also God cannot and will not endure infidelity in… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
The impression of wood-grain... must be considered, not only as regards texture and visibility, but for the occasional possibility of the expression… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
I think so much of the horror film is about our primal instincts, and our primal instincts are not just towards violence.… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
The man and the movement seemed 'reactionary' in my eyes. My common sense of justice, however, forced me to change this judgment… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
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I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life, and… — Nichiren Copy Share Image
Whenever reality reinforces a child's fantasied dangers, the child will have more difficulty in overcoming them...So, while parents may not regard a… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
Some writers maintain arithmetic to be only the only sure guide in political economy; for my part, I see so many detestable… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are… — Jeff Miller Copy Share Image
One feels so despairing on some levels about what's going on in our culture, in regards to things like gender inequality. But… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system… — Adam Rickitt Copy Share Image
Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth..." Whatever our speculations may be in regard to a "beginning," and when… — Elisha Gray Copy Share Image
As a reformer the liberal is dissatisfied with things as they are because they violate his exceptionally tender conscience… Liberalism does not… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
A very good drink they call Chaube that is almost as black as ink and very good in illness, especially of the… — Leonhard Rauwolf Copy Share Image
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings,… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants… — James Otis Copy Share Image
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We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
I so rarely turned down a role, that I can't say I have any regrets in that regard. There were many roles… — Terry O'Quinn Copy Share Image
A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The Obama administration appears to regard intelligence leaks and briefings more or less like briefings by the Democratic National Committee or White… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mel [Gibson] could stage physical comedy and put the camera in such a way... I mean, we did some really funny stuff,… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
Observation by means of the microscope will reveal more wonderful things than those viewed in regard to mere structure and connection: for… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
It is to Titian we must turn our eyes to find excellence with regard to color, and light and shade, in the… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
'Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.' Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image