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The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular provisions, though not… — Alexander Hamilton
Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of frequency may be… — James Madison
There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much… — Alexander Hamilton
To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find… — Hal Borland
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so… — Aleister Crowley
Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake! — Robert Browning
A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it… — Giuseppe Mazzini
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards… — Robert Frost
They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in… — Plutarch
Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than… — Madeleine Albright
A local spirit will infallibly prevail much more in the members of Congress than a national spirit will prevail in the legislatures of the particular… — James Madison
I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is the predominant power].… — James Madison
If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they put upon them… — Alexander Hamilton
THE Constitution proposed by the convention may be considered under two general points of view. The FIRST relates to the sum or quantity of power… — James Madison
The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the… — Alexander Hamilton
And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it,… — Benjamin Franklin
Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons — Pope John Paul II
I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light… — George Eliot
If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in… — Sufjan Stevens
The volumes, the surfaces, the lines-in one word, the structures that build a tectonic construction-do not represent the whole picture: there is also the movement… — Unknown Author
[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth at all. It… — Seth Shostak
We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic… — Herbert Spencer
Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe. — Kurt Vonnegut

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