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One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves… — Abraham Lincoln
It would have been more to the point, more honest and more Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally destroyed healthy life… — Adolf Hitler
One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them… — Adolf Hitler
I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The… — Douglas MacArthur
A mother has far greater influence on her children than anyone else, and she must realize that every word she speaks, every act, every response,… — Nathan Eldon Tanner
An essential part of any successful action on the part of the United States is an understanding on the part of the people of America… — George C. Marshall
I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals. — Joseph Heller
This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul. — Robert Kennedy
This army is powerful because all its members have a conscious discipline; they have come together and they fight not for the private interests of… — Mao Zedong
The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition. — Edmund Burke
Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year,… — Henry Beston
A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole. — Leon Battista Alberti
Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all with an affirmation of beauty.… — Gregory Bateson
O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken,… — Wendell Berry
Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as… — Penelope Hobhouse
Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect… — Murray Gell-Mann
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It… — W. Somerset Maugham
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination… — Charles Horton Cooley
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page. — Bill Walton
A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself. — Jim Valvano
Attitude is the whole thing in football. Every team has the talent and the coaching. Motivation makes the difference. The teams that win stay healthy… — Sid Gillman
Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair oboots to fit… — John Stuart Mill
A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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