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Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke. — Buzz Aldrin
I try and make it to the word exactly what I said four years ago and what I said was that those who've come here… — Mitt Romney
Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck. — George S. Clason
Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best… — Abraham Lincoln
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favored by exceptional circumstances. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately,… — Thomas Jefferson
I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society it is none… — Thomas Szasz
With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to… — Rick Bayan
Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law. — Henry Campbell Black
You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you… — J. Reuben Clark
Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve… — Stephen Jay Gould
Liebig himself seems to have occupied the role of a gate, or sorting-demon, such as his younger contemporary Clerk Maxwell once proposed, helping to concentrate… — Thomas Pynchon
Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.… — James Monroe
In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the… — Thomas Jefferson
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic… — Florence King
Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law . .… — Joseph Story
Spain has been massively diverting capital from the private sector into politically favored environmental projects for the better part of a decade...every green job created,… — Ron Paul
A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved… — H. L. Mencken

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