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Thomas B. Macaulay has 125 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
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To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime,…
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A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
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In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during…
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The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth,…
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The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there…
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Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose…
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government,…
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There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons…
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[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
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I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to…
— Octavia Butler
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When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian,…
— Nicolas Cage
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We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living…
— August Weismann
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Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears…
— Jacques Monod
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All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new…
— Lynn Margulis
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Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.
— William Tyler
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I want to be a positive role model, especially for kids and Aboriginal people... When people see me, often all they see…
— Cathy Freeman
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And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world, that is…
— Alan Keyes
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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
— Alex Haley
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I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.
— Maya Rudolph
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For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans.
— John F. Kerry
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If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like…
— Clifford D. Simak
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