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I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any… — Ehud Olmert
I don't e-mail. I've never felt the particular need to e-mail. — John McCain
All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme. — Richard Dawkins
A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species. — Mignon McLaughlin
The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our… — R. D. Laing
Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's… — Taisen Deshimaru
"And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't… — Willie Mays
The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree… — Dinaw Mengestu
You can be affected by a person because of something particular they said or did but sometimes how a person was, a manner of being,… — Chang-Rae Lee
My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path. — David Antin
Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies. — Friedrich August von Hayek
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
The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain… — Alexander Hamilton
I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in… — Georgia O'Keeffe
I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact with… — Arthur C. Clarke
The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a… — John Marshall
The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be… — James Madison
Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what… — William James
I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which,… — William James
The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The… — John Stuart Mill
Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning… — Hannah Arendt
Some legislators only wish to vengeance against a particular enemy. Others only look out for themselves. They devote very little time on the consideration of… — Thucydides
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration. — Plutarch
The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is the reward of… — Polybius
I’m not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious faith… — Jimmy Carter

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