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Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and… — John Ashcroft
Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them than to look… — John Graunt
I think TV is a medium where you can be entertained, you can be informed, you can relax and you can escape whenever you want.… — Gerhard Zeiler
In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and,… — Othniel Charles Marsh
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover… — Michel Foucault
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product… — Edwin Howard Armstrong
If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural… — J. H. Hexter
The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true. — John Ziman
The Koran claims for itself that it is "mubeen," or clear. But if you look at it, you will notice that every fifth sentence or… — Gerd R. Puin
There is no part of the country where in the summer you cannot get a sufficient supply of the best specimens. Teach your children to… — Louis Agassiz
Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post. — Albert Einstein
But more than 15 sections in Chapter 8 of the report-the key chapter setting out the scientific evidence for and against a human influence over… — Frederick Seitz
Avoid theatrical flourishes - the phrases that sound so damned good that they stand up and beg to be recognized as "good writing," and therefore… — Donald Spoto
I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is approximately 380 words… — Maurice Sendak
A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
If you have to be reasoned into Christianity, some wise fellow can reason you out of it! If you come to Christ by a flash… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of… — Robert Bellarmine
As the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments of the United States are co-ordinate, and each equally bound to support the Constitution, it follows that each… — James Madison
Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers. — Jorge Luis Borges
I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but must… — Gregory Rabassa

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