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The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

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Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial. ↗

— Lyman Trumbull

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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. ↗

— Alan Perlis

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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. ↗

— Aristotle

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It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner. ↗

— Beryl Bainbridge

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Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to. ↗

— Edwin Booth

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There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything. ↗

— George Washington Carver

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The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. ↗

— Willa Cather

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The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public? ↗

— Thomas Chalmers

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But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices. ↗

— Jim Coleman

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