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The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and…
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I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity…
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Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to…
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Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set…
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We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or…
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Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I…
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Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines…
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The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in…
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We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.
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Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.
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A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.
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The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely,…
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We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will…
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I think when you start to do well and get your confidence back, everything becomes more fun. When you're playing with not…
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If Dr. Karl Lueger had lived in Germany, he would have been ranked among the great minds of our people.
— Adolf Hitler
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If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative,…
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The reality is we are still ranked 10th and we are playing a team ranked second in the world who are playing…
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The number one ranked team is playing the number 10 ranked team. That's the reality.
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Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine
— Frederick Douglass
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There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.
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I can definitely say the same thing [discussing Steffi Graf's claim that she had played against at least one top player who…
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Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification, which will result in…
— Eric Schmidt
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It doesn’t matter what you are ranked until the end.
— Nick Saban
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There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust,…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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