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It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it… — Simone de Beauvoir
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. — David R. Brower
It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what… — Jonah Lomu
It was as if we were at the heart of a maze. We were overwhelmed by the enormity of the tasks ahead. Mary had given… — Niall Williams
Given the central role of effective, firmwide risk management in maintaining strong financial institutions, it is clear that supervisors must redouble their efforts to help… — Ben Bernanke
Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central… — Alan Greenspan
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It… — Hamlin Garland
The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other. — Anita Hill
Unlike a mere deception or a simple secret, which gives the impression that something's been taken away, a great magician makes you feel like something's… — Jim Steinmeyer
Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the… — Bell Hooks
At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software… — Tony Hoare
If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to… — Catfish Hunter
I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to me, or didn't… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you may win Southern… — Sam Houston
Man must know the principle of Creation: giving between each interchanging opposite half of each cycle for the purpose of repeating its giving. This is… — Walter Russell
Verily has man freewill to control his actions. That my Father-Mother has given to man as his inheritance. But the control of the ractions to… — Walter Russell
Ponder the significance of the responsibility the Lord has given to us. The Lord has counseled, "Let the solemnities of eternity rest upon your minds."… — Ezra Taft Benson
If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the… — Lewis B. Smedes
The mathematical is that evident aspect of things within which we are always already moving and according to which we experience them as things at… — Martin Heidegger
If an event can be produced by a number n of different causes, the probabilities of the existence of these causes, given the event (prises… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial… — Murray Rothbard
If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to… — William James
Ask, and it shall be given you. — Origen
The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not… — John Calvin
Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth… — John Calvin

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