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It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we have pursued for… — Thomas Jefferson
We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth… — Ronald Reagan
. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in… — Ronald Reagan
It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so often inspired heroism… — Norman Angell
I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every… — Winston Churchill
War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in ourselves,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I ask you to join in a re-United States. We need to empower our people so they can take more responsibility for their own lives… — William J. Clinton
Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives. — Melvyn Bragg
The truth is that every book we read, like every person we meet, has the capacity to change our lives. And though we can be… — Susan Cooper
In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely… — Ferdinand de Saussure
On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people… — Wim Wenders
Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by… — Thomas Carlyle
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes… — John Berger
It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate… — D. H. Lawrence
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the… — Oscar Wilde
Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men… — Victor Hugo
Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without… — Luigi Pirandello
This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were,… — Soren Kierkegaard
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are… — John Berger
He loves the world so much. I agree it would be a shame to take that love away from meadow and tree, stream and sky,… — Janet Morris
Nothing matters more to the future of this Nation than insuring that our young men and women learn to believe in themselves and believe in… — Richard M. Nixon
Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky. — Valentina Tereshkova
The last of the lonely places is the sky, a trackless void where nothing lives or grows, and above it, space itself. Man may have… — Frederick Forsyth
Here above the farms and ranches of the Great Plains aviation lives up to the promise that inspired dreamers through the ages. Here you are… — Stephen Coonts

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