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The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President.

Francis Biddle

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• I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Love
  • Future
  • Dance

• Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Small
  • Community

• We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • Words
  • Food
  • Hero

• When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Freedom
  • Destroying
  • Creeds

• The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Trouble
  • Year
  • Artists

• The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Work
  • Long
  • Done

• I am the best. There is nobody better than me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Best
  • Better

• We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.'

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Smile
  • Down
  • Thank You

• Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Genius

• Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Experience
  • Door

• One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Things
  • Sea
  • Chekhov

• I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Trying
  • Perspective
  • Novelists

• All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Real
  • Value

• I know it's not very masculine to say the moon is beautiful...but it is!

  

  Darren Hayes Savage Garden
  • Beautiful
  • Knows
  • Moon

• The Constitution was made for ordinary people.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Constitution

• Republicans, supposed defenders of limited government, actually are enablers of an unlimited presidency. Their belief in strict construction of the Constitution evaporates, and they become, in behavior if not in thought, adherents of the woolly idea of a 'living Constitution.' They endorse, by their passivity, the idea that new threats justify ignoring the Framers' text and logic about shared responsibility for war-making.

  

  George Will
  • Logic
  • Constitution
  • Republican

• But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Character
  • Root
  • Explores

• The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President.

  

  Francis Biddle
  • Constitution
  • Bothered
  • Wartime