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Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.
― Angelina Grimke
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
Only morons would ever think of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
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Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.
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Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.
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Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living beings in that enormous immensity.
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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
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Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it.
Source: 9 May 2008. youtu.be/EpGH02DtIws -
Overwhelmingly, I would say I've had really good support from many of my teammates and guys that I've played with. We want to be able to express our views. You know, we're part of this country, too.
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Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
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People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.
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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
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People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.
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People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated.
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