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My goal is to achieve a little less injustice in Uruguay, to help the most vulnerable and to leave behind a political way of thinking,… — Jose Mujica
When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states… — DeForest Soaries
If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by… — Lois Duncan
Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on. — Pope Benedict XVI
It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is… — Mark Twain
There were days when the Church could club men into obedience by preaching Hell to them, but that day has long passed. The world has… — John G. Lake
Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer… — William Irwin Thompson
The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The ability and intelligence is remarkable...Prince was able to walk the length of the furrow, between the growing potatoes, and when he was done you… — Paul Heiney
An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires. — Christilot Hanson-Boylen
The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the bits and pieces of disassembled… — Walker Evans
It says something about the curious nature of film, that someone can be so alive on screen, when we're all too aware that they've passed.… — Leonard Maltin
Another advantage accruing from this ingredient in the constitution of a senate, is the additional impediment it must prove against improper acts of legislation. No… — James Madison
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out of the people… — Calvin Coolidge
I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents… — Carl Jung
You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told… — Quentin Crisp
[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed. — James Madison
Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and… — Richard M. Nixon

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