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The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and… — Winston Churchill
Either all things proceed from one intelligent source and come together as in one body, and the part ought not to find fault with what… — Marcus Aurelius
Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal. — Pierre Trudeau
Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine. — Robert Musil
I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. ANAÃS NIN, Fire: From "A Journal of Love" The… — Anais Nin
Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers,… — Charles Caleb Colton
Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of… — C.S. Lewis
Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation — Henry Fielding
If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source. — Euripides
Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To preserve, to improve, and to perpetuate the sources and to direct in their most effective channels the streams which contribute to the public weal… — John Quincy Adams
Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because… — Frank Lloyd Wright
But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a… — George Steiner
readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number of… — David Gelernter
My dad taught me swears when I was a toddler, and I saw, at a really early age, that if I shocked people, I would… — Roseanne Barr
Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that… — Barney Frank
There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source. — Thomas Frank
As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a… — Al Franken
I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids… — Brendan Fraser

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