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The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

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Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique. ↗

— Carter Burwell

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I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

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We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them. ↗

— George W. Bush

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I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman. ↗

— George W. Bush

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There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination. ↗

— Jeb Bush

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There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence. ↗

— Octavia Butler

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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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