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There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation… — Hunter S. Thompson
I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot… — Arnold Schoenberg
The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on father-right-these institutions are… — Andrea Dworkin
In 2005... Mumbai, India, saw that country's most intense recorded instance of rainfall - 3 feet of rain in twenty-four hours. — Joseph J. Romm
But, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees, for instance, in a park [. . .] and nobody by… — George Berkeley
I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own. — Neville Marriner
Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the… — William Lloyd Garrison
Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together,… — Peter Singer
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an… — Oscar Wilde
Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance.… — Carl Jung
Personally, when it comes to rights, I think one of two things is true. I think either we have unlimited rights, or we have no… — George Carlin
The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world, — Michel Chossudovsky
Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us. — George Muller
I have decided to keep a record of my inmost real-self thoughts. Perhaps it will help me to find out what I really am like:… — Rosamond Lehmann
I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men… — Heinrich Himmler
Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should never overlook: that… — Charles Lindbergh
"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its… — Emma Goldman
The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know, with almost superhuman abilities. A… — Ulysses S. Grant
I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within… — Ulysses S. Grant
To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize,… — George MacDonald

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