William H. Seward Quotes
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.
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To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
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I think the Creator renews me.
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I don't want to be a Major League coach.
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I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
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I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
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We are here to make another world.
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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
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When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.
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The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.
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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.
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Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.
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The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.
