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All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn… — Thomas Jefferson
And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure religion of the… — Samuel Adams
I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of… — Thomas Jefferson
The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures. — Thomas Jefferson
The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in… — Thomas Paine
Camera lies all the time. Itâ€™s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when youâ€¦ the moment… — Richard Avedon
Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a… — Georgia O'Keeffe
I wish we had all been born birds instead. — Kurt Vonnegut
What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more… — Ray Bradbury
The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them. — Wayne Gretzky
It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the… — John Mica
If I perceive in another person mainly the surface, I perceive mainly the differences,that which separates us. If I penetrate to the core, i perceive… — Erich Fromm
It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as… — John Stuart Mill
Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the… — John Stuart Mill
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining… — Joan Didion
Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but… — Jurgen Habermas
There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance â€“ poverty… — Hannah Arendt
It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks! — Homer
Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to… — Thucydides
Instead of using medicine, better fast today. — Plutarch

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