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Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which… — Thomas Carlyle
Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways.… — Niccolo Machiavelli
There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along… — Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft
The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order… — P.J. O'Rourke
I see that you have made three spelling mistakes. — Thomas de Mahy, marquis de Favras
From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens - the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the house,… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White
The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was… — Robyn Davidson
Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules… — Noam Chomsky
It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according to culture-all reflect… — Franz Boas
There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their… — Benjamin Franklin
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
In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The Earth shook to… — Jonathan Alter
I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the… — Michael Parenti
I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could… — Michael Parenti
One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one. — James Madison
Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We can never rely… — George Gershwin
When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning… — Kate Bush
I was sleeping in the woods one night after a gig we'd played somewhere, when I saw this girl appear before me. That girl was… — Syd Barrett
Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe… — Loretta Lynn
The body of the Earth, large, sluggish and inapt for motion, is not to be disturbed by movement (especially three movements), any more than the… — Tycho Brahe

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