Especially Quotes
4525 quotes by 3374 authors
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The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] To preserve liberty it is essential…
— Richard Henry Lee
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You must know how to translate the indications of the word into daily witness, allowing yourselves to be formed by the word which, like seed…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.
— Alexander Hamilton
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I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man…
— Malcolm X
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I don't believe in taking much of a divot, especially with the longer irons. You want to barely comb the grass through impact. It's the…
— Moe Norman
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They pampered me, especially my grandmother ... I loved her with all my heart.
— Camara Laye
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Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't undervalue the investigation…
— Theodore Holmes Bullock
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The brain is not, like the liver, heart and other internal organs, capable from the moment of birth of all the functions which it ever…
— Ray V. Pierce
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Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word
— Frank Bough
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My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because…
— Andre Bauer
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I have come to understand that the Lord's richest blessings are spiritual, and they often have to do with family, friends, and the gospel. He…
— Carl B. Pratt
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I hated my part in the charade of murder and horror. My efforts were contributing to the deaths, to the burning alive of children -…
— Ralph McGehee
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I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with…
— Earl Scruggs
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The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just…
— Mink Stole
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American airstrikes...create risks, especially if our intelligence there is rusty. The crucial step, and the one we should apply diplomatic pressure to try to achieve,…
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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Even though probably the majority of homosexuals are not oriented towards young people, there is a significant number that are, especially the men...male homosexuality has…
— Scott Lively
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Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means of its organic…
— Justus von Liebig
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The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of classical Christianity. It…
— George H. Smith
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Pleased be you, my Lord, with all your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, who is the day and through whom you give us light. And…
— Francis of Assisi
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