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Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through… — Thomas Jefferson
Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause… — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
The only place you and I disagree is with regard to the bombing. You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I (in contrast) don't… — Richard M. Nixon
War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business.… — Albert Einstein
The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding what you want,… — Jeanette Winterson
The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because the enemy has sent men to invade our shores, but rather… — Joseph McCarthy
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. — Robert Burchfield
All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of… — Charles Baudelaire
He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who… — Walter Raleigh
The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some… — Raymond Chandler
Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the… — Lewis H. Lapham
I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and… — D. H. Lawrence
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the… — Samuel Johnson
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a… — Emma Goldman
He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it… — Thomas a Kempis
It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the… — Charles Baudelaire
Buddy of mine once told me that he'd rather fly a jet than kiss his girl. Said it gave him more of a kick. — Jerry O'Connell
How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies… — James Cash Penney
It's better to obey God rather than men. — Andrew van der Bijl

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