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Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.
— Thomas Jefferson
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As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is…
— Ray Bradbury
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We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.
— Ian Paisley
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The explosion would be just the right size to maximize the amount of paperwork your lab would face. If the explosion were smaller, you could…
— Randall Munroe
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Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.
— Lorde
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to…
— V.S. Naipaul
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Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would…
— B.F. Skinner
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The failure of the reformation to capture France had left for the Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of…
— Will Durant
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If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
— Polybius
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In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget. Every taxpayer and his family will have more money…
— John F. Kennedy
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In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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I actually didn't get to go to my prom. I left high school when I was 16 to join 'NSYNC. I felt that was something…
— Lance Bass
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Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.
— Robinson Jeffers
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If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the…
— Joseph Brodsky
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I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.
— Claire McCaskill
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Everywhere I go on the campaign trail, I meet voters with a real thirst for a healthy discussion of the issues. Ultimately, people don't care…
— Mike Huckabee
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Holocaust? Ninety million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos - what's to complain about?
— Rush Limbaugh
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