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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country. ↗

— John Acton

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Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have. ↗

— Robert Adams

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As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians. ↗

— Daniel Akaka

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It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. ↗

— Renata Adler

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Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

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One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand. ↗

— Edward Albee

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But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices. ↗

— King Albert II

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My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that. ↗

— Alan Alda

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The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq. ↗

— Mohammed Aldouri

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Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature. ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

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