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It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's own people. And… — George F. Kennan
Such a system would be very, very expensive and laborious to have, given the kinds of border we have. Scientists and engineers aren't even sure… — Janet Napolitano
I absolutely believe that those who come here illegally should not be given favoritism or a special route to becoming permanent residents or citizens that's… — Mitt Romney
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
Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it carries the woman… — David O. McKay
A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of… — Emile Durkheim
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality. — Charles Darwin
If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having… — Jean Rostand
Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place. — George Shearing
In medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazard as abortion. — Warren Hern
My decision to begin research in radio astronomy was influenced both by my wartime experience with electronics and antennas and by one of my teachers,… — Antony Hewish
Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we… — Barry Schuler
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it. — Ronald Knox
The other General Welfare Clause is in the first of the authorities given to the Congress and it's not a grant, it's a restriction. By… — Andrew Napolitano
The Most Important Thing I Know About the Spirit of Sport... It instills in us the ability to recognize and appreciate the talents of others… — Dot Richardson
A hug is the perfect gift, one size fits all, everyone likes them and no-one cares if it is given back. — Natalie
We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time… — Unknown Author
There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.' This is something… — Seth Shostak
Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own… — John Playfair
We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion. — Adam Pascal
Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard and earnestly in… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to… — Galileo Galilei
It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of… — Galen Strawson
If you've given the greatest effort that you can expect of yourself, you always get what you deserve. — C. Vivian Stringer

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