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"Many if not most of his decisions are thrust upon the president, out of the blue, by events beyond his control: oil spills, financial panics, pandemics, earthquakes, fires, coups, invasions, underwear…"

"I am a Christian, and I am a devout Christian. I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe that that faith gives me a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life…"

"The tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become."

"Respect authority while questioning it."

"We want to tell American parents that they and they alone have total power to control every hour of television programming that comes into their home."

"These cases are all psychological manipulation under the guise of assistance. They sell false hope. That's a very powerful product when you’re a person that's desperate."

"Imagine using as an authority in the matter of marriage the opinion of a celibate priest!"

"In all these questions I pay as little regard to science as I do in any other judgment of organic institutions. Our surgery has made splendid progress during the last two thousand years; but medical s…"

"They who bow to the enemy abroad will not be of power to subdue the conspirator at home."

"The reason why fear is so powerful is because you believe it to be stronger than you."

"The emergent humans were still animals, still bound by natural law. No innovation in the way they lived would have taken root if it had not given them an adaptive advantage in the endless struggle to …"

"BBC historic figures: William Wilberforce"

"But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China."

"On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team n…"

"There is no technological magic bullet that will make the government as smart as it is powerful."

"I never felt overlooked because I didn’t expect any kind of recognition. I think that’s very typical of women. I had been acculturated to be supportive, to be accommodating, to support men in the work…"

"The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye."

"The national Democratic Party and its southern affiliates labored mightily to re-subjugate the newly free blacks, eventually succeeding by implementing Jim Crow laws, motivating the birth of the Klan …"

"This island was the dominion of my fatherand should descend to none other than myself. Foreigners must go."

"We live in an oligarchic state where we’ve been rendered utterly powerless. The judiciary, the legislative, the executive branch is all subservient to an oligarchic corporate elite. And the press is o…"