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The literature Nobel laureate of this year has said that an author can do anything as long as his readers believe him.A scientist cannot do… — Sune Bergstrom
...Started by missionaries in 1841, Punahou Academy had grown into a prestigious prep school, an incubator for island elites...It hadn't been easy to get me… — Barack Obama
There is a very long list of parties in this year's election, some of the parties I have never heard of. — Thabo Mbeki
The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the basis… — William J. Clinton
Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail. — Joan Blades
Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier. — Eleanor Roosevelt
The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without… — Martin Luther
I have lived a long time, sir, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs… — Benjamin Franklin
It seems quite proper to fear achievement, which, after all, is proof that you've successfully moved an experience from the delightfully anticipated future into the… — Terry Rossio
Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over the border, is a good thing. It's… — Milton Friedman
That's an interesting paradox to think about. Make it legal and it's no good. Why? Because as long as it's illegal the people who come… — Milton Friedman
When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in… — J. Allen Hynek
It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are… — Hermann Oberth
The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for research in biological… — J. B. Priestley
By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts,… — Abraham Lincoln
The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run… — Benjamin Cardozo
What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle many candidates refused even to… — David Remnick
In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very good time, the… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered… — Plutarch
All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you. — Billie Holiday

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