William H. Seward Quotes
But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.William H. Seward
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
Ramana Maharshi -
I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
Ingrid Betancourt -
I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
Ian Mckellen -
I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
Halima Aden -
I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
Laura Harrier -
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
Ida B. Wells
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
Pat Barker -
Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.
Patch Adams -
Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
Venus Williams -
Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
R. D. Laing -
Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
Manika
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
Vera Farmiga -
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
Dakota Fanning -
I think very few people do find a relationship where, every moment of every day, everything they do comes together. That's why, in a nutshell, everyone loved Barbara in 'The Good Life.' She was the perfect partner. It was a formula. She wasn't glamorous. She wasn't clever. But she was a good partner. That's too easy, too perfect.
Felicity Kendal -
Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
Salman Rushdie -
I saw the Internet as being something which would allow power mongers to control us, and that we would willingly go to that if it promised us salvation - if it promised to show us who we were and let us find ourselves as we had, uniquely in our generation, through rock music.
Pete Townshend The Who
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Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.
Pico Iyer -
We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.
Dave Obey -
Having a family is a compromise on some level, but it's so incredibly worth it. It actually informs the work that I do as a DP.
Rachel Morrison -
But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.
William H. Seward