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At the request of the special counsel, Mr. Rove will not discuss the substance of his testimony. ↗

— Robert Luskin

#discuss #his #mr #request #rove

The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#colonies #conquest #contact #dutch #free

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart. ↗

— Martin Luther

#depths #grant #heart #help #i

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#adult #average #better #boy #bright

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less. ↗

— Alex Haley

#becomes #books #children #fact #i

So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population of Switzerland during the periods above considered. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#been #change #conclusions #considered #draw

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned — would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#independence #individuality #leadership #submission #suppression

The role of leaders is not to get other people to follow them but to empower others to lead. ↗

— Bill George

#leadership #leadership

If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness. ↗

— M. Esther Harding

#being #both #brought #consciousness #feminine

The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it. ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

#double #double meaning #expression #front #got