"renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety……" — Ambrose Bierce

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• I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not… — Abraham Lincoln
• Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. — David Lloyd George
• In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity… — Abdu'l-Bahá
• On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
• And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man… — Charles Nicolle
• I look upon the People and the Nation as handed on to me as an responsibility conferred upon me by… — Wilhelm II
• Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them… — Jose Raul Capablanca
• Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.… — Mother Teresa
• The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in… — Joseph Story

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