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  • Thomas Jefferson I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • A. J. Liebling I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • George Eliot I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Woody Allen I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Jean Rostand I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Richard Nixon I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Henry Miller I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Samuel Johnson I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alan Bennett I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Bill Paxton 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.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Leon Trotsky Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • St. Francis of Assisi If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut If somebody says, ''I love you,'' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? ''I love you, too. ''
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo If the nature of a thing is such that it is reasonably certain to place life and limb in peril when negligently made, it is then a thing of danger. Its nature gives warning of the consequences to be expected. If to the element of danger there is added knowledge that the thing will be used by persons other than the purchaser, and used without new tests, then, irrespective of contract, the manufacturer of this thing of danger is under a duty to make it carefully.
    MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Ben Shapiro If the United States had maintained its spending under Ronald Reagan, it is possible that the attacks of 9/11 - presaged by Islamic terror attacks on multiple American targets beginning with the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 - would have been stopped.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Anna Howard Shaw If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Billy Sunday If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Graham Greene If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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