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Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the…
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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may…
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A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
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...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...
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There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that…
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Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.
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It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the…
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over…
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The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide…
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But might not his [the president's] nomination be overruled? I grant it might, yet this could only be to make place for…
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There is a big difference between manslaughter and first-degree murder.
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The first degree of humility is prompt obedience.
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The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward…
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My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
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If you commit perjury in a so-called first-degree murder case, and you're caught red-handed for the entire world to see, and you…
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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the…
— Victor Hugo
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My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.
— Henry Rollins
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I was actually very hesitant to write about Marie Antoinette. She seemed at first glance - well, I cannot think of any…
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At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so…
— David Crystal
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I got my G's, I got my team. Put me down for murda in first degree. My clip is full, but that'll…
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