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• Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can… — Alfred Nobel
• I strongly oppose cloning, as do most Americans. We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body parts or… — George W. Bush
• Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or… — William Crookes
• Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. — John Milton
• All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed,… — Edmund Burke
• At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that… — Georges Bataille
• Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is… — Elbert Hubbard
• Even if you don't mind Romneycare, or the abortion flip-flop, or any of the rest, there's a more basic problem: He's not… — Mark Steyn
• Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing… — Marina Warner
• What I question is the extent to which any of us truly knows what the facts really are. I mistrust every ideal… — Boyd Rice
• I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot… — Matthew Scully

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