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After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression. — Dave Barry
Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these… — Henri Poincare
I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family… — Edie Brickell
Perhaps love makes us grow old before our time and makes us young again when youth has passed. — Paulo Coelho
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows… — John Updike
What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty. — Leslie Caron
When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility… — Ronald Reagan
I believe it is in the national interest that government stand side-by-side with people of faith who work to change lives for the better. I… — George W. Bush
The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act… — Thomas Jefferson
Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a… — Tertullian
His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest her soul. And...although, she's...wait...your mom's still...your mom's still alive. Your dad passed.… — Joe Biden
The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those… — John F. Kennedy
Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt… — Yehuda Berg
Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted. — Robert Collier
Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the… — Harold S. Kushner
Buddhas continue to live on through their teachings as dharma bodies. Their spirits become manifest in the sangha (spiritual community) where their teachings are passed… — Shinjo Ito
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were… — George MacDonald
The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This… — Bertrand Russell
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions… — Simon Newcomb

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