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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god… — Tacitus
If you had a school for professional fireworks people, I don't think you could cover fuses in just one class. It's just too rich a… — Jack Handey
Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead by an ant,… — Jack Handey
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about. — Mark Victor Hansen
To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each… — Henry James
The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word. — Elie Wiesel
. . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture "remembers" past events? Does the historian have a moral or… — Unknown Author
Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject — Josh Billings
Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long. — Lord Chesterfield
To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its… — Samuel Johnson
We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as… — C.S. Lewis
I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind… — Laurence Olivier
Family violence is an entrenched epidemic that we've lived with since time began, so we've got a long way to go. But I do believe… — Rosie Batty
They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions… — Samuel Johnson
Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself.… — Evelyn Waugh
If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway. But men do not… — Edward Bernays
We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court… — Pete McCloskey
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate… — William O. Douglas
Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health. — Mary Baker Eddy
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. — Oscar Wilde
Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them. — James Goldsmith
We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the front page of… — Bruce Davison
What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me,… — Mariel Hemingway
Wisdom is not about what you know, but how you know it. If knowledge is a measure of the grasp an individual has of a… — Unknown Author
It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was… — Joseph Story

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