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What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here… — Stephanie Mills
One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim… — H. L. Mencken
I look upon the People and the Nation as handed on to me as an responsibility conferred upon me by God, and I believe, as… — Wilhelm II
As we take stock on the morrow of victory, we shall find that nothing of real value to the human race has been destroyed. Our… — Horatio Bottomley
The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its… — Unknown Author
Upon hearing the results of her breast examination, the First Lady said - "I guess it's my turn." — Nancy Reagan
In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you… — Randolph Bourne
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. — William Shakespeare
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion… — William Shakespeare
A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally… — Victoria Woodhull
The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community. — Norman Cousins
It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union… — Michael Novak
If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by… — Stephen Hawking
I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of… — Miguel de Cervantes
The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and considering all others… — Washington Irving
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read… — Charles Caleb Colton
We know that progress is not inevitable. But neither was victory upon these beaches. Now, as then, the inner voice tells us to stand up… — William J. Clinton
The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages. — E. M. Forster
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information… — David Foster Wallace
Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that… — Fran Lebowitz
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. — Sinclair Lewis
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the… — Irwin Shaw
Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times… — Edwin Percy Whipple
Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way, change your mind." — Joan Didion

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