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2742 Private quotes by 1926 unique authors

[He] would drive his sculling boat through mile after mile, in a silent brutal programe of conditioning - he would work all alone, at first… — Daniel Topolski
Nobody Beats Us! served as our main trigger... We practiced using trigger words, private verbal keys, which unlocked certain thoughts for us. We had a… — Brad Alan Lewis
After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and… — C L R James
This same economic system, based on short-term growth and endless profits is also the reason for pretty much everything else that is lousy in our… — Naomi Klein
"I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies-a cypress age, a Sawtooth age-I will continue to link arms… — Karen Russell
The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates… — J C Ryle
It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist… — Henry David Thoreau
In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago — William J. Clinton
It is time to stop personal destruction and prying into private lives — William J. Clinton
I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life. — Charlotte Gainsbourg
I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough… — Matt Damon
Tom Coburn never forgot that members of Congress are spending the hard-earned money of the people back home. Even a lot of conservatives end up… — John Fund
We are profoundly grateful for the blessings bestowed upon us: the preservation of our freedom, so dearly bought and so highly prized; our opportunities for… — Harry S. Truman
The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him. If… — Robert Adams
Being persuaded that a just application of the principles, on which the Masonic Fraternity is founded, must be promote of private virtue and public prosperity,… — George Washington
Every reform was once a private opinion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of Presidency in which I believe - a great office… — John F. Kennedy
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. — George Washington
I am all in favor of pay equity for women, but this kind of legislation, as is typical of what's being proposed by my friends… — John McCain
In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power and… — James Madison
As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none can be more… — James Madison
That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain… — James Madison
Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore the Republic to… — Douglas MacArthur
The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis,… — Frederic Bastiat

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