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Underneath this stone doth lie
As much beauty as could die;
Which in life did harbor give
To more virtue than doth live.Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio CXXIV, Epitaph on Elizabeth, Lady H—, lines 3-6. -
Unfortunately, my district like many others across the country has a problem with gangs, which is why I introduced this amendment.
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Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
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Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: ''I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.''
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
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Unlike the United States Congress, which mostly forbids outside employment, state legislatures are generally composed of people with other careers.
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Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.
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Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
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Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.
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Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.
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Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
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Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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