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6149 Nor quotes by 3085 unique authors
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You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men…
— Khalil Gibran
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It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to…
— Elbert Hubbard
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I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to play in pursuit…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience.
— Martin Luther
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Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither…
— Albert Einstein
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I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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[T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition,…
— George Washington
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The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years,…
— Thomas Paine
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The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the…
— James Madison
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That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of…
— William Penn
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There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress…
— Samuel Johnson
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When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone,…
— Henry Beston
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I fully understand it's important to maintain the separation of church and state. We don't want the state to become the church, nor do we…
— George W. Bush
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I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
— W. S. Gilbert
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Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.
— George Santayana
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General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not…
— William Hazlitt
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Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they…
— Heraclitus
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He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things [i.e., by creating…
— Clement of Alexandria
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There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their…
— Theodore Dreiser
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