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It's the arrogance of man to think that man can change the climate of the world. Only nature can change the climate. A volcano, for… — Tom DeLay
Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged… — Lewis H. Lapham
Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a… — Oscar Wilde
Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage… — Margaret Atwood
Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as… — Hannah Arendt
When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into… — Billy Eckstine
Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no… — David Talbot
In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'. — Sam Ewing
Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that have… — Samuel Adams
Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible… — Thomas Jefferson
Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to… — George Washington
Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More beautiful than, say,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
You canâ€™t learn to write in college. Itâ€™s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you doâ€”and… — Ray Bradbury
Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking… — Margaret Sanger
The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already… — Martin Heidegger
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says… — Michel Foucault
If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first instance; while a… — Thucydides
Time and again in this century, the political map of the world was transformed. And ineach instance a new world order came about through the… — George H. W. Bush
Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is… — Jim Jeffords
The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here… — Paul Klee

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