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Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot… — Bell Hooks
If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for… — Leo Tolstoy
We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale - identity… — Charles Horton Cooley
The right procedure: You begin at the wrong end if you first dispute about your election. Prove your conversion, and then never doubt your election.… — Joseph Alleine
We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only by the beams,… — Thomas Adams
This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill… — Margaret Mead
If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal… — Orrin Hatch
Just because you cannot fight every evil does not mean you should fight no evils. — Dennis Prager
Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty. — Aristotle
That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace… — Jeff Cooper
The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point that a disarmed… — Jeff Cooper
The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left ordinary citizens with… — Malcolm Wallop
I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils it guards against… — Hugo Black
The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him… — George Orwell
Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have dubbed this kind… — Richard Dawkins
I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't… — Charlton Heston
Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us... the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words. — Lord Kelvin
Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all… — Fred Hoyle
And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I… — Robert Southey
Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give up the thought… — Zhuangzi

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