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Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law . .… — Joseph Story
[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without… — James Madison
Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws… — Queen Elizabeth II
By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the… — Charles Horton Cooley
The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth. — John Quincy Adams
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. — Leon Kass
Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth. [Message tapped out by Sarnoff using a telegraph key in… — David Sarnoff
The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the… — May Sarton
Songwriting becomes a conscious attempt to delve into the unconscious. Even those writers who scoff at the concept of a spiritual source for their songs… — Paul Zollo
Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the… — Arthur C. Brooks
I feel that the Air Force has not been giving out all the available information on the Unidentified Flying Objects. You cannot disregard so many… — John William McCormack
Regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified airplane off the coast of California...with… — George C. Marshall
Use every letter you write, every conversation you have, every meeting you attend, to express your fundamental beliefs and dreams. Affirm to others the vision… — Robert Muller
The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and… — Andrea Dworkin
Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that… — Albert Einstein
We must dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war: ammunition factories. — Albert Einstein
The thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable. — Naoki Higashida
The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world.… — Kathryn Stripling Byer
In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge. — Ikujiro Nonaka

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