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John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough… — Edward Abbey
Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps,… — Julian Barnes
I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers there would be… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to… — Alexander Hamilton
Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governour of the Universe:… — James Madison
I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians. — Gary Larson
Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered… — Samuel Johnson
All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from… — Carl Jung
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says… — Michel Foucault
Would food be considered an instrument of national power? ... Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can't/won't control their… — Henry A. Kissinger
I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that… — Eugene Ionesco
Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science. — Bridget Riley
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In my considered opinion, the profit to be made by permanent settlement in space is nothing less than the survival of industrial civilization, and therefore… — Poul Anderson
I know one day I'll be considered too old. — Claudia Schiffer
De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive… — Saul Bellow
The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would… — Sonia Sotomayor
On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered. — Amos Oz
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. — Don DeLillo
Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted… — Denise Levertov
I’ve always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I’ve never lost sight of that. — Natalie Merchant
As for my voice, it cannot be categorized-and I like it that way, because I sing things that would be considered in the dramatic, mezzo… — Jessye Norman
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please — Robert Mapplethorpe
All the people constitute the militia - according to the Founding Fathers. Therefore every able-bodied man has a duty under the Constitution to become part… — Jeff Cooper
It is asserted by most respectable writers upon our government, that a well-regulated militia, composed of the yeomanry of the country, have ever been considered… — John L. DeWitt

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