Quotes with six-and-twenty

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  • Ben Jonson Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back;
    And is a swelling, and the last affection
    A high mind can put off; being both a rebel
    Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth
    All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion,
    and offereth violence to nature's self.
    Catiline His Conspiracy
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Ben Nelson Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Martha Graham America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage.
    Martha Graham
    American modern dancer and choreographer (1894 - 1991)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you - no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bill Frist America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • W. H. Auden America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Brent Scowcroft America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Alexander Graham Bell America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Arianna Huffington America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Norman Mailer America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Lord George Byron America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • C. Wright Mills America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bill Plympton America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Israel Zangwill America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
    Israel Zangwill
    British writer (1864 - 1926)
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  • Bill Frist America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • William S. Burroughs America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Bono America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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