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In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy. ↗

— Jim Garrison

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One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason. ↗

— William Godwin

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I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable. ↗

— Adam Baldwin

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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes. ↗

— Preet Bharara

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Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal. ↗

— Leon Kass

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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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