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O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my… — William Shakespeare
Love may be blind, but this I'll state - it's eagle-eyed compared to hate. — Robert Breault
As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and to… — Barack Obama
Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a calm… — Dalai Lama
We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the… — Martin Sheen
Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on. — George Soros
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty. — Juvenal
It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as… — Thomas Jefferson
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build… — Vaclav Havel
There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts assembled by science so far… — Paul Broca
Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books. — Cardinal Richelieu
A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming. — Martin Luther
A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence… — Vladimir Lenin
The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master. — John F. Kennedy
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows… — John Updike
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club -… — Spiro T. Agnew
Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and… — Abraham Lincoln
If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for… — Albert Einstein
State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he… — Thomas Jefferson
It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world. — Anne Roiphe
Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by… — Samuel Johnson
Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. — Ernest Renan
At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through; at each epoch… — Jacques Maritain
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of… — Louis Kronenberger

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