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The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.
Joseph Butler
Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas. Only individuals can do this. A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.
Estill I. Green
If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
Herbert Hoover
At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.
Richard Dawkins
I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.
Helena Bonham Carter
When you meet anything that's going to be human and isn't yet, or used to be human once and isn't now, or ought to be human and isn't, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.
C.S. Lewis
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nations wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphanto do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.
Abraham Lincoln
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Rabindranath Tagore
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Kin Hubbard
A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal...
Bertrand Russell
I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.
Regina King
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
Diane Ackerman