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When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world. Eliot Spitzer
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We are not a land of Islam, and if French citizens can be Muslims, it's on the condition to submit to habits and ways of life that the Greek, Roman influence and 16 centuries of Christianity have shaped. Marion Marechal-Le Pen
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After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands. Rita Levi-Montalcini
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I explained this goes back centuries as an old-time Islamic symbol, ... I told them we'd be a laughing stock if we did this. Tom Burnett
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The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce. Iqbal Quadir
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When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense. Abraham Verghese
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There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.
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(This) was followed and expanded over the centuries by many explorers, including Abel Tasman, James Cook and Matthew Flinders, all of whom played an important role in revealing the secrets of Australia's coast.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man, at twice its natural size Virginia Woolf
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We want to save ourselves as much of his future as we can.
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We want to protect the lake in the future and for our children.
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We want job opportunities and a good life, a good future for our children,
future men intellectual
If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage? Charles Caleb Colton
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Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow. Charles Simmons
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We've shown how the future can be -- more cheerful, more united. Luiz Scolari
future
When I was 17, I broke up with my future wife. Kris Allen
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The people of Liberia can be proud that they have successfully participated in this important step for the future of their country.
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I'm a researcher, so I'm realistic that there's nothing I'm doing that's going to prevent me from getting cancer in the future. But I can slow it down. Tom Rath
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For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place. Katharine Graham
toward wants
We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end. Ryan Getzlaf
toward vast within
One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.
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The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better. Charlotte Church
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(When) you have a year like I've been having, you just want to contribute. I don't think I'm there yet, but I'm working toward it. Bill Guerin
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We are working toward being an energy-independent facility.
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I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime. Clint Eastwood
toward
We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that. Maurice Cheeks
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We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence. Jane McGonigal
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Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree. Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it. Agnes Repplier
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It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. Charlotte Bronte
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A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing. Charles Dudley Warner
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Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.
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Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.
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Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.
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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.