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There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Political, Question, United

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats

Joy, Knows, Obstacles

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Love, Nature, Best

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Time, May, Thought

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana

Human, Friends, Race

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
George Jean Nathan

Art, Darkness, Criticism

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
H. P. Lovecraft

Truth, Joy, Depressing

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Joseph Addison

Great, Down, Genius

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
Michelangelo

Life, Good, Live

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
Jean Baudrillard

Love, Infidelity, Language

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Life, Two, Become

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
Marie Corelli

Home, Morning, Husband

But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and we don't betray. We're not jealous. We're not envious. We're not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness.
Colin Farrell

Judge, Children, Jealous

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
Harry S. Truman

Enough, Big, Plan

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Truth, Together, Pretty

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Life, Faith, Battle

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
B. R. Ambedkar

Religion, True, Cannot

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
Immanuel Kant

Purpose, Action, Necessary

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
Colin Powell

Great, Forward, Whole

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. Somerset Maugham

Age, Different, Old

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
Henry Miller

Reality, Chaos, Written

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
Guru Nanak

Alone, Him, Soul

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
H. G. Wells

Human, Thought, Jesus

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
Gustave Flaubert

Love, Hope, Everything

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Time, True, Past

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
Samuel Johnson

Advice, Wanted, Welcome

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
Meister Eckhart

God, Father, Everything

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Michel de Montaigne

Life, Full, Happened

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky

Words, Free, Used

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
Calvin Coolidge

Today, Tomorrow, Economy

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