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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
I'm not really a redhead, but I keep playing these redhead actresses. Which I don't mind; I think it's fun.
The war against sexism is portrayed increasingly a battle long ago won. To which my response is, 'if only'.
Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.
I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
We have lived with deadly levels of air pollution for years, which have made us more vulnerable to coronavirus.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different.
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
The bat is not a toy, it's a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.