Subjects Quotes
2964 Subjects quotes by 1987 unique authors
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No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional shield deliberately planned…
— Hugo Black
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After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises.
— Mary Brave Bird
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Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups.…
— Bertrand Russell
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Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto…
— Parker J. Palmer
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for the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we…
— Thomas Jefferson
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this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to be the chief…
— Thomas Jefferson
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When settling disputes between his subjects, he should ensure that his judgement is irrevocable; and he should be so regarded that no one ever dreams…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for, with a very…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate avoids hatred; for…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock;…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is tempermental,…
— Sun Tzu
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Children are prepared for democracy by being led to discuss current events without first learning the systematic subjects (politics, economics, history) which are necessary in…
— Murray Rothbard
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We know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they have to work. However, there are an important number of children…
— Shakira
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During the sole argument we had when [Chelsea] was in high school, the subject of which I don't even remember, I looked at her and…
— William J. Clinton
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The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young men engaged in…
— Hugh Miller
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Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for women. This is…
— Dave Barry
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