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Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

War Failure Done Something

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

Henry David Thoreau

Life Nature Say Human

We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.

Best You Dating Someone

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Freedom Responsibility Grow Person

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

Thomas Jefferson

Mind Body Without Human

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

Civilization Existence Large Which

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

Good Science Long Things

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

Good Evil More Human

Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary.

Suicide Only Cannot Necessary

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Hunter S. Thompson

Happy Lawyer Progress Your

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From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

Childhood Mind Dark Like

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.

Life You Dating Down

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Mind Noble Every Religious

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Happiness Woman Bride Wedding Behind

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

W. Clement Stone

Attitude Business Sales Salesman

When Americans are faced with the prospect that they can never earn their way to wealth, they have two choices: to rebel against the system, or to settle into depressed complacency.

Way Wealth Never Choices

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

Milton Friedman

Freedom I Am Vision Friend

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Failure Fear Fail Determined

The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid determines its value.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Money Government Value Create

There is no prospect that the United States will say to Israel, 'You do such and such and we'll not support you in your security.'

George P. Shultz

You Support Will Security

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

Children World Think Your

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

War Future Mountain Country

The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.

War Long America Without

My grandmother from Iowa, she is dancing in Heaven at the prospect that the next president of the United States is going to be Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Heaven She Next Grandmother

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

J. B. Priestley

Morning Day Waiting New Day

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

Success Alone Man Dream

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