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One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in… — Jeff Cooper
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much. — Jorge Luis Borges
They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to… — Joni Mitchell
The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very… — Oscar Wilde
In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities. — Thomas Sowell
I've just been a machine for making money. I seem to have spent my life in a golden tunnel looking for the outlet which would… — Aristotle Onassis
But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as… — Alexander Pope
If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and… — Thomas Browne
People adopt ideas when social, personal and financial trends intersect-a confluence that may seem random but usually happens 'by design. — Clement Mok
In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a… — C.S. Lewis
At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the right, or that… — James Madison
In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the… — Thomas Jefferson
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 words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities… — Albert Einstein
I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know, however, is that… — Edward Said
There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their… — Benjamin Franklin
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter… — Adrienne Rich
I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free of time. How… — Charles Lindbergh
The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong symptoms of impatience… — Alexander Hamilton

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