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We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American dream that wealth is denied to… — Ronald Reagan
Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the… — Ronald Reagan
War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business.… — Albert Einstein
As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue. — Roger Ascham
Aim high, work hard, and love your family. — Deborah Roberts
And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succeed more than… — John F. Kennedy
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. — Amos Bronson Alcott
The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine,… — J. G. Ballard
Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach… — George Eliot
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had… — Archibald MacLeish
My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough roads, continually signaling… — Harriet Quimby
High sprits they had: gravity they flouted. — Cecil Day-Lewis
The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair… — Havelock Ellis
Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high. — Harrison Ford
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes — Luigi Pirandello
It is a rare and high privilege to be in a position to help people understand the differences that they can make not only in… — Helen Boosalis
Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain… — Edmund Hillary

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