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As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of… — James Madison
Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest -… — Peter Singer
Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal… — Unknown Author
If you think too much about being original, you're gonna be stuck some day. The most stupid or easy movements can be dope; don't dig… — Menno Simons
Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ...… — Auberon Waugh
In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country. — George Orwell
[The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and though often baffled, I as… — Samuel Crompton
I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling in to their projects. I… — Rick Perry
Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured originally; but the… — Richard Hamming
All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have… — John Berger
Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers. — John Stuart Mill
Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the bank. They could… — John Kenneth Galbraith
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow… — Henry David Thoreau
We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic sense of uplifting,… — Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks idealism in any… — Adolf Hitler
That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily submit to celibacy, obligated and… — Adolf Hitler
The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of… — Pope Pius IX
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense… — Alexander Hamilton
The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute… — C.S. Lewis

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