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[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without… — James Madison
Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of either be too… — Alexander Hamilton
The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be… — John Stuart Mill
Our Futures are Formed by the Thoughts we Hold Most Often. — Wayne Dyer
The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due… — Northrop Frye
A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people;… — Henry Ward Beecher
Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now be transformed to the image… — Milan Kundera
Being raised a Jew in southern California in the 1950s and 1960s, my religious training emphasized learning the Hebrew language and Jewish festivals, history, and… — Rick Strassman
Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed between the mortal… — Colin Thubron
I was obsessed with fairytales, and I was a very, very inquisitive kid, and I would ask my mom all kinds of questions. It all… — Chris Colfer
I’m not a mean person, but I have a capacity for it. I have the biting comment formed somewhere in the back of my head… — Tina Fey
The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band — Brian Eno
I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots… — Thurston Moore
I looked forward to making friends at school, but I had come late and friendships had already been formed. I couldn’t find my way into… — Gloria Whelan
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed We need wilderness preserved — as… — Wallace Stegner
We need wilderness preserved-as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds-because it was the challenge against which our character as a… — Wallace Stegner
The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness… — Sigmund Freud
Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands,… — Thomas Jefferson
God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly… — Thomas Jefferson
Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible… — Thomas Jefferson
The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were… — James Madison
What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall… — John Quincy Adams
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It… — V.S. Naipaul
The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real… — Erich Fromm
Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. — Viola Spolin

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