"I like to be beholden to the great……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

More Beholden Quotes

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• Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing. — Bob Barr
• We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We… — Ray Bradbury
• All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to… — Robert Frost
• I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him… — Cato the Younger
• The Congo Free State is unique in its kind. It has nothing to hide and no secrets and is not… — Leopold II of Belgium
• Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name… — Joan D. Chittister
• The very act of committing an experience to the page is necessarily an act of reduction, and regardless of craft… — Bret Anthony Johnston
• The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the… — Harold H. Greene
• The galaxy is full of creatures that are nothing like us at all. We can try to understand them, and… — John Jackson Miller
• We are rare and precious because we are alive, because we can think as well as we can. We are… — Carl Sagan
• Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and… — Francis Bacon
• I believe this nation hungers for a spiritual revival; hungers to once again see honor placed above political expediency; to… — Ronald Reagan

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