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It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less… — Steven Weinberg
Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static in mental space.… — Robert Grudin
I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there,… — Thomas Jefferson
How can we not believe in the greatness of America? How can we not do what is right and needed to preserve this last best… — Ronald Reagan
`Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every… — George Washington
There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of… — George Washington
The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular provisions, though not… — Alexander Hamilton
Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be found, so the… — James Madison
Would they not fear that citizens not less tenacious than conscious of their rights would flock from the remotest extremes of their respective states to… — Alexander Hamilton
Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole… — James Madison
Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our… — Thomas Jefferson
No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant. — George Washington
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out of the people… — Calvin Coolidge
[I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of… — Thomas Jefferson
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to… — James Madison
If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be… — Calvin Coolidge
There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow… — Cecelia Ahern
Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong. — Jean Rostand
The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities… — Albert Einstein
All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of… — Charles Baudelaire

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