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It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to the peace and…
— Thomas McKean
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Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of either be too…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The same rule that teaches the propriety of a partition between the various branches of power, teaches us likewise that this partition ought to be…
— Alexander Hamilton
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In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who…
— Victor Hugo
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Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I think there is a big and significant difference between being a leader and being a manager-leaders lead from the heart. You have to be…
— Andrea Jung
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Why shouldn't gay people be allowed to be able to marry? Those against gay marriages say marriage should only be between a man and a…
— Elizabeth Taylor
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The peace we seek in the world is not the flimsy peace which is merely an interlude between wars, but a peace which can endure…
— Richard M. Nixon
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The tie is stronger than that between father and son and father and daughter. The bond is also more complex than the one between mother…
— Carol Klein
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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
— Francis Picabia
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Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they…
— Seneca the Younger
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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life,…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this earth were suddenly…
— Charles Darwin
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I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which…
— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers…
— Nadine Gordimer
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The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the…
— May Sarton
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There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto…
— Eric Hoffer
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Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
— Ben Hecht
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Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse.
— Warren Beatty
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