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Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house. — John Stuart Mill
The first time I lay actual eyes on the real David Lynch on the set of his movie, he's peeing on a tree...Mr. David Lynch,… — David Foster Wallace
Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature. — Immanuel Kant
It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be… — Saint Augustine
Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love. — Karl Marx
That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up… — Jenny Han
When we work so hard at our preparations for Christmas, we often feel cheated and frustrated when others fail to notice the results of our… — Ellyn Sanna
And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of… — Plato
Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared… — Mike Mason
But actual rapists, men who are usually known to (and often loved by) their victims? Men who are sometimes our sports heroes, political leaders, buddies,… — Jaclyn Friedman
But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never… — Manuel De Landa
We need to raise the level of our game in terms of explaining the planetary warming by infrared absorption of CO2 etc. The missing area… — Unknown Author
Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual… — Gautama Buddha
It will be interesting to see if they accept the idea that not only actual corruption in politics needs to be addressed, but the appearance… — Larry Noble
Scientific reasoning is a kind of dialogue between the possible and the actual, between what might be and what is in fact the case. — Peter Medawar
Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions. — John D. Rockefeller
The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign… — H. L. Mencken
The President, and government, will only control the militia when a part of them is in the actual service of the federal government, else, they… — Alexander Hamilton
The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; [ when called into actual service]… — Alexander Hamilton
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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