He's going to remain steadfast in his determination to simply ensure a nominee who holds the greatest promise of filling the very large shoes of the man who has just passed. I don't think he'll confine himself to any candidate of a particular race or gender.
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Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight ... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. (Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule)
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The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.
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It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.
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The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
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At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo -- slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space.
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... peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.
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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
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I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.
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The latest rumors in the last week speculated that it would stay like this. With as much growth as there is and the number is at 1,985, I can't see how Cooper won't drop down.
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She has important reasons to leave the court, and I think it would be a step too far to ask her to make that sacrifice.
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Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
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Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
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Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.
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A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast.
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The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
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... religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with the straight-teaching...
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Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.
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They say golf is not a contact sport. Not the way we play it.
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Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
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The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
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These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
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That number 84 was one tough son of a gun.
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I seldom ever missed a Gary Cooper picture if I could manage to see it.
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God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.
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