“ Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
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“ Socrates... said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
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“ It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error. ”
- Robert H. Jackson- Copy
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“ It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. ”
- Susan B. Anthony- Copy
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“ The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. ”
- William Jennings Bryan- Copy
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“ If the aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. ”
- Stanley Garn- Copy
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“ Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world. ”
- Cicero- Copy
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“ Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have. ”
- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero- Copy
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“ It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts. ”
- H.L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens. - As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The governor has said that we have gained 360 million pounds. ”
- Kenny Rogers- Copy
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“ Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world. ”
- Diogenes- Copy
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“ A good population of elms remains in Langford due to the diligence of the residents in quickly removing the problem trees. ”
- Craig Brown- Copy
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“ I have been a resident of Nevada for 52 years. When I moved here, Las Vegas had a little over 22,000 people and Reno was only slightly larger. ”
- James E. Rogers- Copy
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“ Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. ”
- James Fenimore Cooper- Copy
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“ The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we must support a government agency that gives itself to the emotional and ideological manipulation of citizens is infamous. ”
- Richard Mitchell- Copy
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“ I think a lot of players from the USA could come to the premiership. They started there with a blank piece of paper, and have got it right. They have more kids playing Soccer, as they call it over there, than any other sport, but the major league soccer, will find it hard to compete with the likes of American Football, Basketball and Baseball. ”
- Richard Gough- Copy
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“ That clarity is not going to happen and the ambiguity helps the White House, which now can hold indefinitely and without charges another U.S. citizen without having to worry about any restrictions from the justices. ”
- Andrew Cohen- Copy
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“ There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own. ”
- Katherine Anne Porter- Copy
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“ Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans. ”
- Fran Lebowitz- Copy
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“ Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness. ”
- Hannah More- Copy
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“ Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find. ”
- Veronica Lake- Copy
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“ Knavery seems to be so much a striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom. ”
- King George III- Copy
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