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If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers… — Calvin Coolidge
Play for young children is not recreation activity, It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity. Play is thinking time for young children. It is… — James L Hymes
While serving others, we are most likely to plead for the companionship of the Holy Ghost. Success in the Lordâ€™s service always produces miracles beyond… — Henry B. Eyring
The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer. — Edsger Dijkstra
Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs… — Karl Liebknecht
There are two powers only which are sufficient to control men, and secure the rights of individuals and a peaceable administration; these are the combined… — Noah Webster
Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers. — Zhuangzi
If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and… — Clarence Thomas
...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often - at any rate,… — George Orwell
An aware person is in tune with all the powers of God and makes them his or her own. — Donald Curtis
I believe the powers of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that… — Charles Dickens
To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere. — Nathaniel Branden
Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension. — Winston Churchill
The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers… — Learned Hand
A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and… — C.S. Lewis
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great… — Edmund Barton
You know the Model of your Car. You know just what its powers are. You treat it with a deal of care, Nor tax it… — John Kendrick Bangs

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