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Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

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I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

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We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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