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"I had a truly horrible dream last night … were on our way to a TV studio for a debate about his long-time working friendship with the powerful Bush family from Texas and how it might affect the next B…"

"Regulations of the Navy provide that medical officers shall exercise no military authority. If I give you a flag, the line officers will think I have gone crazy."

"Great men have foibles for which they can be forgiven; including an occasional failure to see where their greatness lies, or what might diminish it."

"Climbing to the top demands strength, whether to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career."

"No force is more powerful -- or more multiple -- than the family."

"If the attractive virtue of the moon extends as far as the earth, it follows with greater reason that the attractive virtue of the earth extends as far as the moon and much farther; and, in short, not…"

"These philosophers of the world place contrarieties in the same subject; for the one attributed greatness to nature and the other weakness to this same nature, which could not subsist; whilst faith te…"

"The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves,…"

"A few have a great power of listening and attending, but they are only few, and this power gives them a superiority over those who cannot attend."

"The confrontation would be better and cheaper for us than to sign that we accept U.N. forces in Darfur."

"History has shown very clearly that for democracy to continue, the people, and not the generals or even the executive authority, must have control over the military."

"Collective action is a means of power, a means by which individuals can more fully realize their individual values."

"My duty is, as a Judge, to be governed by fixed rules and former precedents."

"Matter of fact, the first three or four chapters are all some of you might want to bother with. That gets you to page 123 or so, which is a nice length, a nice novella sort of length."

"How can one govern without taxes, without strength, without authority?"

"On the one hand, the ruling Islamic regime has succeeded in completely repressing Iranian women. Women are forbidden to go out in public unless they are covered by clothing that conceals everything bu…"

"These people aren’t so much seeking asylum, they’re seeking permanent residency. If they were happy with temporary protection visas, then they might be able to argue better that they were asylum seeke…"

"Southwark, where the whores or Winchester geese displayed their breasts at the windows of the trugging houses. They were called Winchester geese because the Bishop of Winchester controlled the propert…"

"India can best develop herself and serve humanity by being herself and following the law of her own nature. This does not mean, as some narrowly and blindly suppose, the rejection of everything new th…"

"I love Brittany; I find wildness and primitiveness there. When my wooden shoes ring on this granite, I hear the muffled, dull, and powerful tone which I try to achieve in painting."