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America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.
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Americans now know that housing prices can go down and they can go down by 10, 20, 30, and in some cases, 40 or 50 percent. We know they can go down. But five years ago, we thought they could only go up.
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Among all my patients in the second half of life... every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
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Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
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Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
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Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
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An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.
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An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
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An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.
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An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What’s your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books'.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2015) -
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.
Atlas Shrugged (1957)
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