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Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches and… — Stephen Baxter
If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health,… — Nathan Deal
I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles,… — Alan Keyes
To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state. — Walter Lippmann
What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting… — Ludwig von Mises
There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high… — Jascha Heifetz
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now. — Neville Marriner
Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral beingâ€¦ and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it is morally right… — Angelina Grimke
The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty… — William Lloyd Garrison
I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we… — Stephen Jay Gould
We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the… — Franz Boas
A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative. — Edward Sapir
Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans. — Peter Singer
The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of chance, occupation, or… — Heber J. Grant
I got a standard box. I don't never want nothing special. Then if I drop my box, I can borrow somebody else's. — Wes Montgomery
I also generally play slide guitar in standard tuning, which enables me to switch back and forth between using the slide and fretting notes and… — Warren Haynes
... Jimmy Page bought a Les Paul because he liked mine, but it was stolen, so he bought a Standard everybody raved about .. that's… — Albert Lee
The result was the same as tuning down the strings by a semitone and using a capo at the first fret. With less tension in… — Tal Farlow
The god of the world is the gold and the silver. The world worships this god. It is all-powerful to them, though they might not… — Lorenzo Snow
Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower the standard of… — John D. MacDonald

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