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I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we… — Abraham Clark
Nothing is more needed among preachers today than that we should have the courage to shake ourselves free from the thousand and one trivialities in… — G. Campbell Morgan
A man on a hiking trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains came to the top of a hill and saw, just below the crest, a… — James Keller
I expressed just now my mistrust of what is called Spiritualism â€” ... I owe it a trifle for a message said to come from… — William De Morgan
I found myself doing extraordinary things that arent in the textbooks. Then the IMF asked the U.S. to please print money. The whole world is… — Gideon Gono
Someone asked me about the difference between love and lust. Hmmm. That will take a little thought. How to tell the difference? Well, for guys,… — Steven Barnes
I was not asked whether I would have a problem having Michael Sam on my team. I would not. — Tony Dungy
I have never lived on principles. When I have had to act, I never first asked myself on what principles I was going to act,… — Otto von Bismarck
[Asked whether he would like to see an experimental demonstration of conical refraction] No. I have been teaching it all my life, and I do… — Isaac Todhunter
If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and . . . if I… — Ayn Rand
"Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I… — Anton Chekhov
St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die… — Francis of Assisi
When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both Murray Gell-Mann's and… — Kenneth G. Wilson
"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh.… — Benjamin Hoff
When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to… — Richard P. Feynman
One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate tours. When Mrs.… — Calvin Coolidge
Three men were laying brick. The first was asked: " What are you doing? He answered: " Laying some brick." The second man was asked:… — Charles M. Schwab
On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to… — Benjamin Franklin
In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the… — Anna Akhmatova
I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put… — Muhammad Ali

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