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140 quotes by 127 authors

This Government, the offspring of your own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the… — George Washington
Now it would be foolish and impossible to try and prevent the manufacture of films containing Canadian snow scenes; but there is no vestige of… — Charles Paul
Prior to 1968, the gullible gentiles could take a one dollar Federal Reserve note into any bank in America and redeem it for a dollar… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal
If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read… — George Will
Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest… — Michael Denton
There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those… — Benjamin Wiker
But the most amazing, almost miraculous news is that the majority of the building is still intact. Due to one of the most astonishingly intelligent… — Muriel Gray
People are not "things" to be manipulated, labeled, boxed, bought, and sold. Above all else, they are not "human resources." They are entire human beings,… — Dee Hock
Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing… — Robert Hugh Benson
"Diversity" is a difficulty to be overcome, not an advantage to be sought. True, America does a better job than most at accommodating a diverse… — Ann Coulter
Paul Erdos has a theory that God has a book containing all the theorems of mathematics with their absolutely most beautiful proofs, and when he… — Ross Honsberger
A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didnâ€™t know enough to stay in… — S. J. Perelman
All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ...Boxes, cases,… — Sigmund Freud
Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup — Michael Pollan
Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce. — Michael Pollan
There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia. — Dave Barry
Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of… — Dave Barry
It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are… — Charles Lyell
God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of him. A word will never be able to comprehend the voice that utters it.… — Thomas Merton
The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore. — Lady Frieda Harris

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