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I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
I am sometimes perplexed by people who refer to defensive rifles, or defensive rifle shooting. The defensive arm is the pistol, since you have it… — Jeff Cooper
Whatever the source of the leader's ideas, he cannot inspire his people unless he expresses vivid goals which in some sense they want. Of course,… — David McClelland
Chemistry ceases to improve when one element is found from which all others are deductible. Physics ceases to progress when one force is found of… — Swami Vivekananda
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth. — Patrick Murray
In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed — Barack Obama
We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the case. Our government… — Harrison Ford
The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace. — Thomas Jefferson
Never looking anyone in the eye when you're traveling on public transport, in case it's interpreted as a sign that you're trying to get off… — Paulo Coelho
The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of… — Benjamin Rush
The local interest of a State ought in every case to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a sacrifice of one… — Alexander Hamilton
Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
This is the case with millions of people. They talk about love, they know all the poetries about love, but they have never loved. Or… — Rajneesh
Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation — John Felstiner
Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by… — Thomas Carlyle
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the… — Salman Rushdie
In the case of pilots, it is a little touch of madness that drive us to go beyond all known bounds. Any search into the… — Jacqueline Auriol
If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're writing. And if… — Ursula K. Le Guin
It's just the more you do it the better you get, or at least that's how I feel in my case. I think it's a… — Lucinda Williams

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