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Sometimes we adopt certain beliefs when we're children and use them automatically when we become adults, without ever checking them out against… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
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Rights mean you have a right to your life. You have a right to your liberty, and you should have a right… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
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The 2009 stimulus law got the ball rolling, allowing the agency to reduce and eliminate fees and raise loan guarantees to 90… — Karen Mills Copy Share Image
My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I believe that should is one of the most damaging words in our language. Every time we use it, we are, in… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
The good news about fresh water is that, even after accounting for the larger volume of water that is unavailable to people… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
Global warming is not a threat. But environmentalism's response to it is…Even if global warming is a fact, the free citizens of… — George Reisman Copy Share Image
You and I must realize that the English language is filled with words that, in addition to their literal meanings, convey distinct… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The DOCF all started when I made a trip to a local hospital in the Dominican Republic. I was visiting children who… — David Ortiz Copy Share Image
The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
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DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
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I don't story board. I do something else, which is, I block it. We then train to the blocking. In other words,… — Michael Mann Copy Share Image
If you’re too stupid to understand that a philosophy that favors a federally structured republic, with numerous restraints on the scope and… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
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My book, Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research is about how researchers use this method and how to write up their oral history… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
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