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Sir, no nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion is the best religion that has been given…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible…
— Thomas Jefferson
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But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.
— Isaac Asimov
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The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
— John Marshall
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Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The…
— John Marshall
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I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is…
— William Eggleston
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Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how…
— Richard Henry Lee
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The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or…
— Ida B. Wells
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Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered…
— Samuel Johnson
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Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in…
— John Milton
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And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having just before threatened…
— Henry Fielding
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Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the…
— Carl Jung
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The continuing, direct operation of the Holy Ghost on those who are called to be God's children implies, in fact, a broadening process of incarnation.…
— Carl Jung
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Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would…
— B.F. Skinner
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Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important…
— Michel Foucault
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The history of humanity is not a hotel where someone can rent a room whenever it suits him; nor is it a vehicle which we…
— Hannah Arendt
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A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system that no longer…
— Jacques Derrida
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In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right to rest our…
— Thucydides
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I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks…
— Seneca the Younger
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To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a…
— Charles Perrault
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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that…
— Augustus
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