It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.


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WILLIAM H. MACY
The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the govern...
WILLIAM H. WHARTON
The I.B.M. machine has no ethic of its own; what it does is enable one or two people to do the compu...
WILLIAM H. WHYTE
The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pro...
WILLIAM H. GASS
Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder...
WILLIAM H. GASS
Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic th...
WILLIAM H. MACY
When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were re...
WILLIAM H. HUNT
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban li...
WILLIAM H. GASS
The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a fr...
WILLIAM H. GRAY
Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Go...
WILLIAM H. MACY
Still, we permit the appearance of our meats, sauces, fruits, and vdgetables to dominate our tongues...
WILLIAM H. GASS
Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
DR. WILLIAM H. MASTERS
1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. 2. You cannot strengthen the weak by we...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know i...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and vi...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you ar...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely tr...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and securi...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help small men by tearing do...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth m...
DR. WILLIAM H. MASTERS
When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.
DR. WILLIAM H. MASTERS
The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.
DR. WILLIAM H. MASTERS
You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
Your greatness is measured by your kindness; your education and intellect by your modesty; your igno...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
You can't fly a kite unless you go against the wind and have a weight to keep it from turning a some...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbo...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in other...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something ...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
True religion . . . is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of ot...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you shou...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of o...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H.
Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
H.
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road...
H.
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H H WILLIAMS
There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO