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Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the… — Chinua Achebe
FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest… — Felix Adler
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. — Ambrose Bierce
It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing… — Nicolas Cage
If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the… — Herman Cain
Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play… — Eric Cantona
The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the… — Jimmy Carter
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement. — Winston Churchill
Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons… — Kofi Annan
It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time. — Francesca Annis
In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of… — Emile Durkheim
The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last for ages. In… — Ernst Haeckel
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own… — John Playfair
The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating… — Armand Salacrou
Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel of a motor… — Edward de Bono
May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange… — Winston Churchill
The human spirit is indomitable. No one can ever say you must not run faster than this or jump higher than that. There will never… — Roger Bannister
The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system! — Malcolm X

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