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It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at… — Pat Robertson
Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great commonwealth, for all… — Kevin Rudd
In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and… — Patti Smith
One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature. — Greg Graffin
The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to… — Geoff Mulgan
To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct.… — Michel de Montaigne
Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one… — Norah Vincent
What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we… — Barbara Kingsolver
What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel… — Alice Walker
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. — Bertrand Russell
In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or… — George R. R. Martin
The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than… — C.S. Lewis
It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty… — Michel de Montaigne
The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly, and… — Daniel Handler
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which… — Marguerite Yourcenar
Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the… — Simone Weil
Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy. — George R. R. Martin
I am convinced that missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience. Salvation never was easy. We are the Church of… — Jeffrey R. Holland
In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take… — Bertrand Russell
The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have… — Mitch Albom
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a… — C.S. Lewis
This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources. — Maureen Johnson
There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose… — Samuel Johnson

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