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While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority…
— Conrad Black
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Climate Change is a national security issue. We found that climate instability will lead to instability in geopolitics and impact American military operations around the…
— Gordon R. Sullivan
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Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother…
— Mark Twain
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It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending for…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
— Zhuangzi
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Christ used the flesh and blood of Mary for his life on earth, the Word of love was uttered in her heartbeat. Christ used his…
— Caryll Houselander
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There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.
— Harriet Martineau
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What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting…
— Thomas Merton
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I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future. . . without having to wait…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have often made war…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion…
— Calvin Coolidge
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So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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I've always thought that a lot of really good writers go wrong by getting so into the craft and the technique and perfection. Perfection can…
— Patterson Hood
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I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which…
— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
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I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a…
— Paul Simon
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All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.
— Beth Nielsen Chapman
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The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we…
— C.S. Lewis
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The strands of spaghetti were vital, almost alive in my mouth, and the olive oil was singing with flavor. It was hard to imagine that…
— Ruth Reichl
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Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.
— Neil Gaiman
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I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious…
— Meghan O'Rourke
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More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of…
— Michelle Alexander
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Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us,…
— Florence Nightingale
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