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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
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If you aren`t playing well, the game isn`t as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
Thomas J. Watson
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A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
Tenneva Jordan
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I believe that when you know something`s going wrong, you make it right. That`s what I learned in Vietnam. When I came back from that war I saw that it was wrong. Some people don`t like the fact that I stood up to say no, but I did
Senator John Kerry
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Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
Sarah Caldwell
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I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so
Saint Augustine
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They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.
Red Cloud
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
Calvin Coolidge
Subject: History QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering
Minna Antrim
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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Subject: Law and Lawyers QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
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Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, `We did this ourselves.`
Lao Tzu
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Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species
Konrad Lorenz
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A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did
Konrad Lorenz
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Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep.
Ann Snyder
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All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I`m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
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When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"
Howard Ikemoto
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Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the Most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any Motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.
George Oppen
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Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"
Annie Dillard
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Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"
Annie Dillard
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Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"
Annie Dillard
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till the...
Frederick Douglass
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I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don`t want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.
Felix Frankfurter
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I do not know what `moss` stands for in the proverb, but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school."
Ernest Shakleton
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Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
DAVID GRAYSON
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When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before
Cliff Fadiman
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Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
Charles de Lint
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
Bill Lovejoy
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Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"
Annie Dillard
