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O most glorious God ... Direct my thoughts, words and work, wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb, and purge my… — George Washington
Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number; and indeed, that… — Patrick Henry
There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder… — Annie Leibovitz
Given enough coffee I could rule the world — Terry Pratchett
They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the religion which Chance… — Arthur C. Clarke
The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us… — Ray Bradbury
I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great, essential right. I… — James Madison
The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code. — John Quincy Adams
Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason… — Samuel Johnson
Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate. — Amy Winehouse
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
Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub. — Gordon W. Allport
A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies. — B.F. Skinner
The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to… — Jacques Barzun
Only for the sake of the hopeless have we been given hope. — Walter Benjamin
The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in… — Hannah Arendt
That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given to… — Jacques Derrida
What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't travel around, like… — Gilles Deleuze
The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without… — Pericles
God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death. — Hannibal
The task that has fallen to us as Americans is to move the conscience of the world, to keep alive the hope and dream of… — Ronald Reagan
I am grateful for who I am and who I am not. I am grateful for the life I have been given and for all… — Miranda Kerr
Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse! — Tennessee Williams
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way.… — Neil Simon

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