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Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to them… — Peter Singer
...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine… — Arthur Rubinstein
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance,… — Mahatma Gandhi
It isn't that some gay will get some rights. It's that everyone else in our state will lose rights. For instance, parents will lose the… — Michele Bachmann
Very effective way to do this with a bunch of second graders, is take a picture of The Lion King for instance, and a teacher… — Michele Bachmann
The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare… — Josiah Stamp
The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive taxation to the… — Vilfredo Pareto
In a great number of the cosmogonic myths the world is said to have developed from a great water, which was the prime matter. In… — Svante Arrhenius
Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Al Gore has a hit movie called 'An Inconvenient Truth.' I have an inconvenient truth for him: you're still not the president. ... This past… — Stephen Colbert
I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the… — J. Edgar Hoover
The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the living voice of… — Pope Leo XIII
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered,… — Edmund Burke
Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless… — George Washington
The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil society. It was… — George Washington
The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems; it subsidizes… — Ronald Reagan
In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long… — Sun Tzu
there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of the… — James Madison
If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a… — Aristotle
I have all these computers and keyboards and synthesizers, and I rattle away. For instance, with The Lion King I wrote over four hours worth… — Hans Zimmer

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