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  • John Foster Dulles The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
    John Foster Dulles
    American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Grover Cleveland The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
    Grover Cleveland
    American politician and lawyer (1837 - 1908)
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  • Colin Powell The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
    Colin Powell
    American elder statesman and four-star general (1937 - 2021)
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  • Barack Obama The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam
    Speech UN 24-09-2014
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Don Marquis The universe is not friendly to despots, and they all perish sooner of later.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • J. B. S. Haldane The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
    Possible Worlds
    J. B. S. Haldane
    English-Indian geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1892 - 1964)
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  • Giordano Bruno The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobilizable..
    Giordano Bruno
    Italian philosopher and priest (1548 - 1600)
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  • Albert J. Nock The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Tom Morris The unlived life is not worth examining.
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • John Irving The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Edmund Burke The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bradley A. Smith The usual test under the Federal Election Campaign Act for whether something counts as a campaign expenditure is whether the obligation would have existed but for the campaign. If so, it is not a campaign expenditure.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Albert Einstein The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Sir William Osler The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Peter de Vries The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • Benjamin Walker The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.
    Benjamin Walker
    American actor and stand-up comedian (1982 - )
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