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Historically, the 19th century is defined by annexations and internal turmoil. For instance, the Tre... ILAN STAVANS
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The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism - mostly by nonviolent resista... NOAM CHOMSKY
I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER
Across the sea fat kings watched and were gleeful, that something begun so well had now gone off the... GEORGE SAUNDERS By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.
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As for the politicians, like everyone else in America, they were motivated by money, not ideals. CHARLES DICKENS
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"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."- Edward R. Murrow
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To bring the matter to one point, Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to g... THOMAS PAINE
In other words, our constitution was designed by people who were idealistic but not ideological. The... BILL CLINTON يا راكعين لأمريكا , أنا بريء منكم
ناجي العلي at a savings of more than half or one third of what they were paying in the United States.
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Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge. SARAH VOWELL Peter Forsberg is one of the best players in the game. We signed him knowing that he puts us over th...
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The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Ru... EMANUEL CELLER I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.
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For the last decade, I've worked as a federal judge in a court that spans six Western states, se... NEIL GORSUCH
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER We have only one U.N. soldier for every 250 square kilometers of territory.
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The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS
In these our cowardly times, we deny the grandeur of the Universal, and assert and glorify our local... SALMAN RUSHDIE It's not about being liberal or conservative, it's about being human.
It's not about bein...
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Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates. JON STEWART Shamelessness is not the same as honesty.
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The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride arou... JON STEWART
...never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never saw an instance of one of two disput... THOMAS JEFFERSON
There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children. ANDREW SHUE
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If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln. THEODORE ROOSEVELT
If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln THEODORE ROOSEVELT
In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Ab... W. E. B. DU BOIS
Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me ABRAHAM LINCOLN All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
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If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum is in my county board district. I'm not going around claimin...
SAM CAHNMAN I travel all over the Western United States for weed programs and I have yet to see as complete of a...
LARRY WALKER
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, ... WILL ROGERS
The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States.... DENNIS MILLER Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the Unite...
T BONE BURNETT Bill, The United States is not a company. It is a country.
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If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln. SAM WATERSTON
We should honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt today as the greatest commander in chief of the Armed Forc... NIGEL HAMILTON
a vicious act of terror, which the United States strongly condemns. CONDOLEEZZA RICE
A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turk... ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON Racial hatred in America still exists but never was it anything like the time immediately after the ...
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Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United Stat... WILL ROGERS Lincoln signed 25,000 of these.
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In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take. ADLAI E. STEVENSON II
Under democracy one party always devotes it's chief energies to prove that the other party is unfit ... H.L. MENCKEN
To his own children he was at once the ultimate voice of authority and, when time allowed, their mos... DAVID MCCULLOUGH The Constitution of the United States... specifically states the Congress shall write legislation fo...
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BOB SANCHES
There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ In 1863, Abraham Lincoln declared two Thanksgivings. One was held in August. The second, held in Nov...
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DAVE HEINEMAN The Dream Act . . . will allow them to go to college in all 50 states. The students have to live in ...
DANIEL OSORIO Although the government has more money than anyone else, it's one of the toughest defendants to sue ...
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GARY F EVANS... I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to th...
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Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Ac... JOHN MUIR The goal for 2006 is to reach a comprehensive agreement with the United States in the first half of ...
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Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh. 
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. 
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. 
The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearin... 
If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a rive... 
There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a ce... 
My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their compa... 
When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I join... 
To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it. 
Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly. 
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation. 
Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges. 
The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to k... 
New Zealand is not a small country but a large village. 
The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. 
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming indi... 
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. 
Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantana... 
I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's go... 
There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job. 
Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's t... 
I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo. 
Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterho... 
By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except w... 
Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand forbecause unless we stand... 
My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs... 
The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eatin... 
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts ... 
I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danc... 
A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I marr... 
I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, ... 
We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughin... 
Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, fir... 
It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. Th... 
Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through t... 
Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot. 
Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other membe... 
Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love. 
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a grow... 
A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally. 
I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and ... 
The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical,... 
I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustaine... 
In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way... 
Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey ... 
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them. 
Only in this world of topsy-turvy attitudes could outright stupidity, such as I had displayed, be so... 
Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas. 
Twisting lemons into lemonade. 
We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because w... 
There is a pain you can’t think your way out of. You can’t talk it away. If there was someone to... 
We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as tr... 
If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but y... 
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you. 
Elke webpagina van de site heeft een uithangbord waaraan de bezoeker herkent waar hij terecht is gek... 
Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being... 
Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ... 
Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness. 
Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite. 
The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins e... 
Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan. 
Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't. 
There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed. 
All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy. 
Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and ... 
Common Sense is in medicine the master workman. 
All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it cont... 
If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same. 
Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see t... 
If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing. 
It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know. 
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when s... 
The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance... 
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else. 
All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though ... 
Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and t... 