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If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long ago… — Leonard Bloomfield
Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a… — John Burroughs
And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succeed more than… — John F. Kennedy
We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are,… — James A. Baldwin
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles… — Bertrand Russell
My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about… — John Keats
To fly! to live as airmen live! Like them to ride the skyways from horizon to horizon, across rivers and forests! To free oneself from… — Henri Mignet
Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with its protection must… — Michael Parenti
A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist governments and undermine… — Michael Parenti
For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the members of the… — James Madison
The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as much to the… — Thomas Jefferson
there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of the… — James Madison
Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either… — Joseph Story
The reasonableness of the agency of the national courts in cases in which the state tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial, speaks for itself.… — Alexander Hamilton
We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it,… — Benjamin Franklin
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent… — Thomas Jefferson
But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of… — Alexander Hamilton
Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or… — Steven Pressfield
If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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