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Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been. — Louis Gustave Vapereau
We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost… — William Kingdon Clifford
In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable… — Richard Cobden
It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be… — Selma James
It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way… — Chaim Potok
America is the only major country that tries to ascertain who was the first applicant to invent the product or procedure. This may seem fair,… — Robert Pozen
Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather,… — Gary Bauer
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in… — Ulrich Beck
To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it. — Arthur Cohn
You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is… — Simon Callow
We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting… — Barbara Deming
Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians of… — William A. Dembski
I am not sure precisely why we need to have privacy, but everyone knows for sure that we need to relax and not have to… — Ezekiel Emanuel
In order to lead a fascinating life, one brimming with art, music, intrigue, and romance, you must surround yourself with precisely those things. — Kate Spade
In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths peacefully coexist in… — Herbert Marcuse
Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits, organised in some… — Anthony Giddens
Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known. — G. Stanley Hall
Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a… — Peter Kreeft
I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my… — Susan B. Anthony
Many think it not only inevitable but entirely proper that liberty give way to security in times of national crisis--that, at the extremes of military… — Antonin Scalia

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