Noah Cicero quote: "When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist."

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Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never...
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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its less...
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The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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Virtue is its own reward.
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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
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Man is his own worst enemy.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can ...
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinio...
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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
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The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sac...
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The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.
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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
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We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free.
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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
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Hatred is settled anger.
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There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retr...
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The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
(Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)
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The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.
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The people's good is the highest law.
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Law stands mute in the midst of arms.
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Our thoughts are free.
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Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor ...
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Let your desires be ruled by reason.
(Appetitus Rationi Pareat)
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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
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The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brute...
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While there's life, there's hope.
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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory...
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
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Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.
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The freedom of poetic license.
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There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference betw...
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Let the punishment match the offense.
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson...
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What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
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We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist a...
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To each his own.
(Suum Cuique)
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To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.
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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, ...
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education wit...
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Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.
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No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
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The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorit...
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The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.
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What a time! What a civilization!
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When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff.
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By doubting we come at truth.
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To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifeti...
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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
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It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another".
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It is a great thing to know our vices.
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In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe ...
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In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for hon...
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If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, plac...
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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than c...
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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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Force overcome by force.
(Vi Victa Vis)
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By force of arms.
(Vi Et Armis)
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Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form r...
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As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
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All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultiva...
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A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without...
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regula...
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The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
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Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
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The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unche...
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The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
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Strain every nerve to gain your point.
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Reason should direct and appetite obey.
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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of t...
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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
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Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
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Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some o...
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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.
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Laws are silent in times of war.
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Superstition is a senseless fear of God.
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Taxes are the sinews of the state.
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There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
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We analyzed information gathered from focus groups, ... From the feedback we received, the groups di...
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The First Bond of Society is Marriage.
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No sane man will dance.
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We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.
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They do more harm by their evil example than by their actual sin.
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There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
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[One recent survey says,] people are tired of news, ... Our minds possess by nature an insatiable de...
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It is hard for the good to suspect evil as it is hard for the bad to suspect good.
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The great thing is that the economic impact stays here and in the state, ... We think Lafayette's a ...
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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for...
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What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the o...
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This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age. Latin: Hoc vinum Falernum annorum q...
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own, ... Yo...
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The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.
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We're serious. This isn't a joke, ... If an entire town changed its name to DISH, you can't buy that...
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Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printe...
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
YANNICK NOAH

I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Ca...
JOAKIM NOAH

I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.
YANNICK NOAH

During my New York run, I injured my voice badly. I was getting increasingly hoarse, and it finally ...
TREVOR NOAH

Faced with the collapse of Iraq into something like Lebanon - or worse, Somalia - the Bush administr...
NOAH FELDMAN

During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our...
NOAH FELDMAN

The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.
TIMOTHY NOAH

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want...
TREVOR NOAH

William O. Douglas married not one, not two, not three, but four hot blondes. He was not faithful to...
NOAH FELDMAN

Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.
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What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no resp...
TIMOTHY NOAH

You have two choices, two paths to take as a comedian. You can tackle the difficult subjects and be ...
TREVOR NOAH

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
NOAH PORTER

Another source of power in government is a military force. But this, to be efficient, must be superi...
NOAH WEBSTER

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something a...
NOAH WEBSTER

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.
NOAH PORTER

The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revil...
TIMOTHY NOAH

The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of...
NOAH FELDMAN

We've got so many different cultural groups in my family that I've had to learn to accommoda...
TREVOR NOAH

Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I ...
NOAH BAUMBACH

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.
YANNICK NOAH

It's really important to have balance, spend some time in nature, go to a few parties, enjoy my ...
JOAKIM NOAH

You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to p...
TIMOTHY NOAH

I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm ve...
NOAH BAUMBACH

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not th...
NOAH WEBSTER

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine so...
NOAH WEBSTER

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all ch...
NOAH WEBSTER

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any govern...
NOAH WEBSTER

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot ...
TIMOTHY NOAH

We live in the Internet age. Everyone wants clicks. Clicks are what sells.
TREVOR NOAH

You can be president of the United States and have the best, most bipartisan-seeming idea in the wor...
TIMOTHY NOAH

I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.
TIMOTHY NOAH

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.
NOAH WEBSTER

I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't inte...
TREVOR NOAH

I lost contact with my father for many years because of apartheid. For, like, six years, I didn'...
TREVOR NOAH

It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.
TIMOTHY NOAH

What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However ma...
TIMOTHY NOAH

Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about ...
TIMOTHY NOAH

I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix...
TREVOR NOAH

Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not dif...
NOAH FELDMAN

Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autono...
TIMOTHY NOAH

Let me be clear. 'The Good Father' isn't a handbook on how to assassinate the president.
NOAH HAWLEY

There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich ...
TIMOTHY NOAH

My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in ...
TREVOR NOAH

My mom, through my dad, rented the apartment next door to his... he had the lease on both places. Bu...
TREVOR NOAH

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices no...
NOAH WEBSTER

I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. ...
TIMOTHY NOAH

There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where ...
NOAH HAWLEY

Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal governmen...
TIMOTHY NOAH

Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional l...
TIMOTHY NOAH

What is driving the tendency to discount Joseph Smith's revelations is not that they seem less r...
NOAH FELDMAN

The anthology format is completely normal to me. That's just how TV works in my experience.
NOAH HAWLEY

Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientist...
TIMOTHY NOAH

The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests,...
TIMOTHY NOAH

The Mormons' passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to...
NOAH FELDMAN

It's funny, I'm very analytical in my real life, but in terms of my films, I try to not anal...
NOAH BAUMBACH

Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call cent...
TIMOTHY NOAH

The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.
TIMOTHY NOAH

Many of the crew members I work with and continue to work with were friends or have become close fri...
NOAH BAUMBACH

One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Frankli...
TIMOTHY NOAH

The truth is, people don't know me. When people don't know you, they're going to try to ...
TREVOR NOAH

The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security i...
TIMOTHY NOAH

An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republi...
NOAH FELDMAN

To hear both critics and defenders talk about the fitness of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme C...
NOAH FELDMAN

The great difficulty with Guantanamo is it was perceived correctly as being a place where people wer...
NOAH FELDMAN

Prisoners, according to the law, who are non-U.S. citizens and are detained outside the U.S. - inclu...
NOAH FELDMAN

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction...
TREVOR NOAH

I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.
NOAH TAYLOR

Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some s...
TIMOTHY NOAH

I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events...
NOAH BAUMBACH

America was a thing I saw on TV - that wasn't a real world. That wasn't within my realm of d...
TREVOR NOAH

When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.

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When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.

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