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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
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To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath…
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.
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See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He burns, too,…
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so…
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He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be…
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Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
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But what began in 1941 was a process of destruction not planned in advance, not organized centrally by any agency. There was…
— Raul Hilberg
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We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be,…
— Donella Meadows
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We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the…
— Lewis Thomas
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The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.
— Donald Knuth
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There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people…
— Leo Ornstein
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Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.…
— Mark Skousen
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But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and…
— Herman Melville
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In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.
— David Miliband
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