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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.
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The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.
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The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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The voyage of the "Beagle" has been by far the most important event in my life, and has determined my whole career.
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (1887) -
The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.
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The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
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The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.
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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
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There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.
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There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
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There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.
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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
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There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.
Speech on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (5 July 1926) -
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
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There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.
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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
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