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America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one people achieved such preeminence.… — John F. Kerry
When the United States stands up for human rights, by example at home and by effort abroad, we align ourselves with men and women around… — Barack Obama
I regret that I can't sit in the stands and watch me. — Bo Belinsky
The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is a… — Lewis H. Lapham
In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before… — Pope Francis
It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as in that vision,… — Leigh Hunt
To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well… — Adolf Hitler
The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery...is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind. — Pope John Paul II
A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide. It stands out, like a baby's… — Anne Lamott
God no longer simply stands before us as the One who is totally Other. He is within us, and we are in him. His dynamic… — Pope Benedict XVI
The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings: But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall… — Julian Grenfell
America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking… — Stewart Udall
At my door the Pale Horse stands to carry me to unknown lands. — John Hay
There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business… — Wendell Berry
The truly creative individual stands ready to abandon old habits and to acknowledge that life, particularly his own unique life, is rich with possibilities. — Unknown Author
But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In… — Ronald Reagan
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life. — Karl Kraus
Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way… — Cyril Connolly
He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and… — Samuel Johnson
The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person… — Richard Bach
Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else… — Jacob Bronowski
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away — Harold Geneen
The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and… — Vaclav Havel
It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching and strong in… — Elizabeth Berg

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