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- I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826)
- Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.
- Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )
- Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Middlemarch
- Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
- Bob Marley (1945 - 1981)
- One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
- Bob Marley (1945 - 1981)
- (i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands - e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
- Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill-up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account.
- Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Dilbert Future
- If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), The Ethics
- The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), The Ethics
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