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None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational… — Christian Nestell Bovee
I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones,… — Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The deadly arms race, and the huge resources it absorbs, have too long overshadowed all else we must do. We must prevent that arms race… — John F. Kennedy
First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were unable to quench… — Winston Churchill
God lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and… — C.S. Lewis
A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking; and even… — James Anthony Froude
There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be… — Charles Caleb Colton
By faith we receive the saving grace of God that delivers us from guilt and sin. In love we participate in the victorious struggle of… — Gabriel Fackre
The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor… — Karl Marx
No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[T]he powers granted by the proposed Constitution are the gift of the people, and may be resumed by them when perverted to their oppression, and… — James Madison
[In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and… — James Madison
The American continents, by the free and independent condition that they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future… — John Quincy Adams
It's very difficult to pin down the President of the United States without subpoena powers. — Bill O'Reilly
The bad news is that Iran wants to talk about everything except their nuclear program. They want to talk about regional cooperation, they want to… — Reza Aslan
Vibrancy is so universally desirable, so totemic in its powers, that even though we aren't sure what the word means, we know the quality it… — Thomas Frank
Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private… — Thomas Frank
The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans'… — Al Franken

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