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It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. Do not ever let anyone claim to be a true American patriot… — George Washington
I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose… — Stephen Jay Gould
An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored… — John B. S. Haldane
Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either… — Jules Feiffer
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter,… — William Hazlitt
The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not… — John Sentamu
The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who claimed to be… — Andrew Mwenda
Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously - rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the hot sun and… — George Ayittey
I do not attempt to orchestrate my career. I let God do that. — Clint Howard
The more words we are allowed to take, the freer we become. If our mouth is banned, then we attempt to assert ourselves through gestures,… — Herta Muller
Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the… — Bayard Rustin
Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination of the Taliban… — Teju Cole
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt… — Teju Cole
It always struck me that Africa was, in a strange way, a futuristic place and had elements and vibes and spirits that were going to… — Damon Albarn
What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile… — Italo Calvino
My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later. When I was younger, I was terrified… — Alanis Morissette
In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate,… — Alanis Morissette
For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature… — Lysander Spooner
My attempt is to try to broaden the base of the Republican Party, to try to bring in people that can agree and that can… — Rudy Giuliani

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