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  • No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
  • Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
  • When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.
  • The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
  • I've had a career that is kind of under the radar, but it sure is varied, and I've been so blessed to be able to get paid to do something I love to do.
  • One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
  • Baseball has the largest library of law and lore and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
  • Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
  • As man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.
  • My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, 'Where's the fun? Where's the glamour?'
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  • Winston Churchill Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • André Gide I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • William Butler Yeats But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mel Brooks Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
    Mel Brooks
    American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and composer (1926 - )
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  • William Shakespeare He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Assata Shakur If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 222
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • George Washington Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Albert Claude Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • George Eliot Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Konrad Adenauer We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
    Konrad Adenauer
    German politician (1876 - 1967)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Adam Weishaupt When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Benjamin Franklin You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Napoleon Hill Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Alexander Cockburn A ''just war'' is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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