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I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with… — Bertrand Russell
There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of… — Winston Churchill
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture. — Anatole France
The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I will make an… — Friedrich Schiller
I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in… — Abraham Lincoln
It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If… — Plutarch
And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling… — Confucius
Americans to bow our heads in humility before our Heavenly Father, a God who calls us not to judge our neighbors, but to love them,… — George W. Bush
Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a tendency… — John of Damascus
If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the choices of our hearts, then… — June Jordan
In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And do you not… — Tertullian
Exclusion of just one class of citizens from receiving a marriage license based upon the perceived 'threat' they pose to the marital institution is, at… — Unknown Author
Throughout our history each and every generation has expanded upon the freedoms won by their parents and grandparents. Each and every generation has removed some… — Michael Bloomberg
If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in… — Gore Vidal
If you go on loving a person deeply, by and by sex disappears. Intimacy becomes so fulfilling, then there is no need for sex; love… — Rajneesh
The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view… — Bertrand Russell
Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway… — Mae West
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks, the… — M. King Hubbert
We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy… — David Graeber

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