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Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.
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Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
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Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
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Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.
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Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.
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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
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Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
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Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
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Damn your principals. Stick to your Party!
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Danger invites rescue.... The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
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Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime.
Henrietta Temple (1837) 2, ch. 1 -
Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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