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So given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the immigrants who have… — Luis Gutierrez
The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet,… — Nadine Gordimer
If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you. — Stuart Wilde
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us… — Walter Pater
From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but… — James Cook
We also call upon the king to hand over power to the political parties and for the political parties to shoulder their responsibility and turn… — Joseph Adam Ereli
The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the… — Ernest Newman
POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of… — Ambrose Bierce
Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over… — Philip James Bailey
The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we… — Woodrow Wilson
I SEND YOU MY HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS UPON BEGINNING THE THIRTIETH YEAR OF YOUR GREAT CAREER AS MANAGER OF THE NEW YORK GIANTS, IN WHICH YOU… — Herbert Hoover
Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place.… — Phillips Brooks
Shall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with… — Zoltan Kodaly
Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of contemplation is a… — Josef Pieper
Once upon a time when there was no time. — John D. Barrow
The word patriotism, or its equivalents and derivations, is upon everyone's lips at the present time. It is a magic word which is thought by… — Ernest Belfort Bax
Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a blind devotion; in… — George William Curtis
The flavor of patriotism depends upon its habitat. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values… — Calvin Coolidge
Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past… — Calvin Coolidge
If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.'… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who… — John Dewey
To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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