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"In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality."
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Clarence Darrow
"In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality."
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"Men do not fail; they give up trying."
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Elihu Root
"Men do not fail; they give up trying."
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"It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress."
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Fay Vincent
"It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress."
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"The special counsel has not advised Mr. Rove that he is a target of the investigation and affirmed that he has made no decision concerning charges."
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Robert Luskin
"The special counsel has not advised Mr. Rove that he is a target of the investigation and affirmed that he has made no decision concerning charges."
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"The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right."
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William Ruckelshaus
"The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right."
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"I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject."
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James Otis
"I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject."
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"I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled."
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Lloyd Cutler
"I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled."
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"The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it."
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Charles W. Colson
"The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it."
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"Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000."
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Fay Vincent
"Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000."
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"Some of the bravest and the best men of all the world, certainly in law enforcement, have made their contributions while they were undercover."
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Thomas Foran
"Some of the bravest and the best men of all the world, certainly in law enforcement, have made their contributions while they were undercover."
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"There's never a good year for immigration reform - that's why it's dragged on ineffectually for decades."
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Kenneth E. Scott
"There's never a good year for immigration reform - that's why it's dragged on ineffectually for decades."
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"I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front."
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Edward Bennett Williams
"I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front."
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"In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution."
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Wendell Willkie
"In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution."
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"Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership."
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James Humes
"Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership."
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"Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love."
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Wendell L. Wilkie
"Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love."
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"The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers."
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Ralph Nader
"The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers."
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"Well firstly, that points certainly at the need for international standards on biometrics that would move in the same direction so that we can have the same technical requirements."
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Asa Hutchinson
"Well firstly, that points certainly at the need for international standards on biometrics that would move in the same direction so that we can have the same technical requirements."
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"The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time."
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Jacques Verges
"The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time."
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"But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour."
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Wendell Willkie
"But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour."
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"Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move."
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Augustus Longstreet
"Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move."
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"Courage without conscience is a wild beast."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"Courage without conscience is a wild beast."
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"No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them."
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Charles Lyell
"No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them."
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"I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down."
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Floyd Abrams
"I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down."
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"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."
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Nathalie Sarraute
"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."
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"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."
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"The expectations are that when this investigation is completed, Fitzgerald will make the appropriate decision, which is not to charge Karl with any criminal offenses."
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Robert Luskin
"The expectations are that when this investigation is completed, Fitzgerald will make the appropriate decision, which is not to charge Karl with any criminal offenses."
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"Pain is the root of knowledge."
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Simone Veil
"Pain is the root of knowledge."
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"Education is the mother of leadership."
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Wendell Willkie
"Education is the mother of leadership."
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"There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide."
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Len G. Murray
"There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide."
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"I can understand Communism, but not Socialism."
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Lajos Kossuth
"I can understand Communism, but not Socialism."
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"The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything."
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Clarence Darrow
"The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything."
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"For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull."
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Ralph Nader
"For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull."
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"I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed."
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Theodore C. Sorensen
"I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed."
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"For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love."
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Wendell Willkie
"For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love."
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"What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?"
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Walter F. Mondale
"What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?"
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"There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage."
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William Jennings Bryan
"There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage."
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"I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London."
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Charles Keating
"I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London."
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"I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in."
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Floyd Abrams
"I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in."
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"The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human."
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Elizabeth Edwards
"The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human."
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"Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee."
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F. Lee Bailey
"Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee."
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"Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction."
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Theodore C. Sorensen
"Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction."
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"I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm."
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Floyd Abrams
"I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm."
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"We recognize that it is not only inbound but also outbound (cargo) that can pose a risk as well."
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Asa Hutchinson
"We recognize that it is not only inbound but also outbound (cargo) that can pose a risk as well."
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"For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered."
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Valerie Jarrett
"For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered."
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"The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind."
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Rufus King
"The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind."
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"I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit."
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Lucien Bouchard
"I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit."
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"It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous."
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Crystal Eastman
"It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous."
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"These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie."
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Edward Bennett Williams
"These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie."
Lie,
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"I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father."
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Theodore C. Sorensen
"I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father."
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"It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state."
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Alan Dershowitz
"It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state."
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