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It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life… — Leonard Sweet
The humble person is open to being corrected, whereas the arrogant is clearly closed to it. Proud people are supremely confident in their own opinions… — Thomas Dubay
This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good… — William J. Clinton
It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat… — Thomas B. Macaulay
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. — R. Buckminster Fuller
moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency. — Ambrose Bierce
The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than… — Adrienne Rich
From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial… — Joel Salatin
You are a cosmic happening rooted in a local event, NOT the other way around. — Michael Beckwith
I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here… — Ralph Vaughan Williams
I am delighted to be involved in the digital divide campaign to ensure that every school is made aware of what steps it can take… — Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
We have created islands, small islands of power, but we have not built a bridge between those islands, .. The center and the territories, regional… — Vladimir Putin
Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the… — Raymond Sokolov
I think every citizen in Burlington has a right to voice their opinion and participate in the local political process no matter who they are… — Tim Scott
My time at Wofford was very dear to me. I chose to go there because the academics were so strong. I could have gone somewhere… — Brenda Jackson
Let's just be clear here. The vice president of the United States accidentally shoots a man, and he feels that it's appropriate for a ranch… — David Gregory
Obviously, the technology community in Massachusetts competes in a global economy, and our efforts to create a more competitive environment recognizes that competitiveness at a… — Christopher Anderson
The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North… — Otto Schily
During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under… — Edward Alsworth Ross
I vote Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect… — David Letterman

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