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  • Blake Farenthold The fourth amendment specifically was designed to prohibit general warrants. How could collecting every piece of phone data be perceived as anything but a general warrant?
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Desiderius Erasmus The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • James Truslow Adams The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
    James Truslow Adams
    American writer and historian (1878 - 1949)
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  • John McCain The French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who is still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it.
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • William Shakespeare The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bryce Harper The full thing is God-given. I don't know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked every single day. I know I did as much as I could with my dad. But I never really looked at anything mechanical. There was nothing really like, 'Oh, put your hands here.' It was, 'Where are you comfortable? You're comfortable here; hit from there.'
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Hugh Trevor-Roper The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • A. J. Liebling The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Albert Einstein The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Hilaire Belloc The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be. And for my part I cannot but believe that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of Islam.
    Source: The Great Heresies (1938) H. III
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Kofi Annan The future belongs to you, but it can only belong to you if you participate and take charge.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Anna Quindlen The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • James Baldwin The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Brenda Laurel The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked so well that they formed a very lucrative industry fairly quickly. But what worked for that demographic absolutely did not work for most girls and women.
    Brenda Laurel
    American video game designer and researcher (1950 - )
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  • Virgil The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • William Lyon Phelps The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
    William Lyon Phelps
    American author, critic and scholar (1865 - 1943)
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  • William Blake The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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