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- All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced the Mississippi from…
- There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything.…
- Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from Bellingham, close to…
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- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow. — Margaret Atwood
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their… — John Avlon
- I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you… — David Axelrod
- A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of… — Irving Babbitt
- I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues. — Michele Bachmann
- When you are running for the presidency of the United States, you have to expect that you are going to have attacks… — Michele Bachmann
- God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. — Francis Bacon