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"You can't go east and west at the same time."
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Jean Charest
"You can't go east and west at the same time."
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"We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility."
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Barbara Jordan
"We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility."
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"I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community."
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Barbara Jordan
"I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community."
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"Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation."
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Charles Ruff
"Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation."
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"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."
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Nathalie Sarraute
"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."
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"The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold."
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Albert Pike
"The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold."
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"The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment."
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William Jennings Bryan
"The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment."
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"Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment."
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Barbara Jordan
"Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment."
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"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else."
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Clarence Darrow
"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else."
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"Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."
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William Lowndes
"Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."
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"We would certainly welcome the recipient nation to put their inspectors on our shores, if they wanted to make that investment to help protect that shipment that is outgoing."
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Asa Hutchinson
"We would certainly welcome the recipient nation to put their inspectors on our shores, if they wanted to make that investment to help protect that shipment that is outgoing."
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"Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved."
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Jean Savarin
"Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved."
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"The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments."
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Elliot Richardson
"The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments."
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"And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything."
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Pierre de Fermat
"And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything."
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"If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce."
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Barbara Jordan
"If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce."
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"A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation."
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Barbara Jordan
"A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation."
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"There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist... If he swings, it will be from right to far right."
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Jonathan Turley
"There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist... If he swings, it will be from right to far right."
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"Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity."
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Jean Charest
"Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity."
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"We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach."
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Kenneth Starr
"We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach."
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"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."
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"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."
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Albert Pike
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."
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"There is no great writing, only great rewriting."
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Justice Brandeis
"There is no great writing, only great rewriting."
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"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."
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Clarence Darrow
"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."
Men,
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"They've got him - credible witnesses, documents, heaven knows what else. In all my years as a prosecutor I have never seen such an open-and-shut case."
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Elliot Richardson
"They've got him - credible witnesses, documents, heaven knows what else. In all my years as a prosecutor I have never seen such an open-and-shut case."
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"Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell."
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"I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy."
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Fay Vincent
"I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy."
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"Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont."
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Clarence Darrow
"Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont."
Man,
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"I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought."
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Lloyd Cutler
"I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought."
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"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."
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"The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business."
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Clarence Darrow
"The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business."
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"In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county."
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Augustus Longstreet
"In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county."
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"I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means."
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Clarence Darrow
"I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means."
Men,
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"I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster."
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Nathalie Sarraute
"I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster."
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"The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years."
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Lajos Kossuth
"The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years."
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"A man is accountable to no person for his doings."
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James Otis
"A man is accountable to no person for his doings."
Man,
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"Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve."
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Clarence Darrow
"Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve."
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"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."
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"I have never sought the reason why I write."
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Nathalie Sarraute
"I have never sought the reason why I write."
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"Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator."
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Lajos Kossuth
"Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator."
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"I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it."
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Clarence Darrow
"I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it."
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"There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure."
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Barbara Jordan
"There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure."
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"Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads."
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David Boies
"Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads."
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"I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth."
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James Otis
"I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth."
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"I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote "In Contempt" was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it."
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Christopher Darden
"I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote "In Contempt" was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it."
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"I just did something on a show on UPN called "Girlfriends" that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not."
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Christopher Darden
"I just did something on a show on UPN called "Girlfriends" that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not."
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"The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time."
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Nathalie Sarraute
"The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time."
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"The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power."
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Gerry Spence
"The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power."
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"Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning."
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Howard Cosell
"Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning."
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"The imperative is to define what is right and do it."
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Barbara Jordan
"The imperative is to define what is right and do it."
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"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."
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