No society ever rights a wrong without finding a new one to put in its place
Margo Jefferson
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense...
JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
ZEN PROVERB Let me give you a New Year message: Believe in yourself, because no one ever achieved anything signi...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is...
C.S. LEWIS The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
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That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER We must put an end to both economic freeloading and economic exploitation in America. There must be ...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis...
DANIEL PENNAC To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.
CY TWOMBLY To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.
PAUL CéZANNE For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new...
JENA MALONE In every civilized society, there is an established institution put in place to design laws that mak...
SUNDAY ADELAJA All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever b...
BARBARA DEMING No one ever hates without a cause....
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH No puedes separar a la Margo persona de la Margo cuerpo. No puedes ver lo uno sin lo otro… Al fina...
JOHN GREEN A new day simply means all our errors of the previous day has been forgiven us,we can now re-begin a...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A new year is another vantage opportunity to re-strategize the venture called life.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
JOHN RUSKIN Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole. During an ambush, you're praying for everything a...
WARREN ZINN No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while...
ERICA JONG A prophet is without honor in his home because,due to proximity factor a prophet may not be able to ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.
EDNITA NAZARIO Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revo...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS For a long time, no one ever wanted to admit that television was anything but this horrible, horribl...
JEFFREY SCONCE In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT ...there is nothing so dangerous in its consequences as injustice to individuals- whether it arise f...
JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE The ultimate is finding a place where you have no inhibitions, nothing to hide, where you can learn ...
JENNIFER ANISTON Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in ...
GERTRUDE STEIN the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell...
JUSTIN PYFROM There is no right to a job or a wage rate, but there is a right to move from one country to another ...
ALEX TABARROK Brothers and sisters no genuine change can ever take place in a generation or epoch without first sl...
SUNDAY ADELAJA No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end faste...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS No one should live by the early bird policy without finding out whether he classifies as a bird or a...
UNKNOWN Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.
COLIN FIRTH New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten ...
JOHN STEINBECK All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time ...
RICHARD DAWKINS A man's home is his castle. Taking it from him in order to give it to the politically powerful is wr...
HORACE COOPER No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced b...
MARK HOPKINS Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. I find it incredibly amazing how at every sunset, the sky is a different shade. No cloud is ever in ...
SANOBER KHAN The secret is out. There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a te...
FOUAD AJAMI Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
CHARLES LAMB A Man without ceremony has need of great merit in its place.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN They are without parallel. No one is even close to having that many people in one place.
CATHY MANN I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer...
FISHER AMES The glorification of the "'woman's role," then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to...
BETTY FRIEDAN "For some of us I think its about finding a person to call home rather than a place to call home.
FATHOM To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
EUGENIA SHEPPARD A society like Canada's, with its four centuries of give-and-take, compromise and acceptance, wrong-...
ADRIENNE CLARKSON There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.
HENRY ROLLINS No one ever said 'no' to me about anything. No one ever told me anything was wrong. Never. N...
MARC JACOBS Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam w...
NONG DUC MANH No one is ever holy without suffering.
EVELYN WAUGH A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in fin...
F.A. HAYEK No matter what anyone ever tells you, follow your heart because it will never lead you to the wrong ...
RAGAN BRUMFIELD I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd b...
J.R. RIM The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.
DOUG STANHOPE When you see a new day, you must see a new reason to think anew. You must see a new reason to start ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting h...
BARRY O'FARRELL Prop 8. There's a reason why God had created Adam and Eve ~ Not Adam and Steve.. Two screws don't fi...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one f...
DONALD JOHANSON I will take a backseat to no one in a commitment to civil rights in America.
HOWARD DEAN We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
PIERCE BROWN No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams.
ROY T. BENNETT No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one beco...
PAUL GOODMAN There's nothing wrong with being a capitalistic society, but it's taken the place of faith.
CORBIN BERNSEN No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and l...
JOHN IRVING Always count the costs before starting any journey, and never take a step without finding its costs.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and th...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.
LEMONY SNICKET If you have to shout to prove your point, you're probably wrong.
ALEKSANDRA NINKOVIC Ever since we've had these light houses, not one ship has come into our house. About twice a year th...
CAROLYN HARVEY I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of e...
SAM HARRIS ...our family became a place where you screamed for help but no one heard, not ever.
MARCELINE LORIDAN-IVENS Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and priv...
WILLIAM PENN No new world without a new language.
INGEBORG BACHMANN Finding a place that felt like home in a foreign place was really important.
JENNI FRIEDMAN No nation has ever failed to prosper when its people put God first and their country second
HAROLD LINDSELL I believe that in a way, sadness is happiness for there can be no wrong without right, no light with...
GIRL234 Being born white in South Africa or anywhere in the empire and Commonwealth automatically conferred ...
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MARGO WOOTAN I work in this area, and I don't even know what some of those things are referring to.
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MARGO WOOTAN It's impressive that Kraft was able to do two 100 percent whole-grain cookies.
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MARGO WOOTAN Growing old happens but growing up needn't happen
MARGO VADER Sweet Jane.
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MARGO LANAGAN Wilson was a consummate entertainer. He truly loved to perform, and when he took the stage, he would...
MARGO LEWIS heavily tattooed women can be said to control and subvert the ever-present 'male gaze' by forcing me...
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MARGO CASTORENA If your laptop gets stolen, they still can't get to your data.
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MARGO T. ROSE Did you say all that you meant to
Before the curtain closed?
Or did you feel so much more<...
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My peers break into.
They rearrange my furniture,
And...
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It doesn't change anything,
Except the way I see myself,
An...
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Who said they were here for me,
And I thought I was once the...
MARGO T. ROSE I know you're feeling worried,
But I promise I'm okay.
You think I'm missing all the fun,<...
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We were part of e...
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I know t...
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You always say tomorrow,
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MARGO T. ROSE Don't be sorry;
Don't you cry.
It's enough
That you tried.
I love you,
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MARGO T. ROSE An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
THOMAS JEFFERSON One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wr...
THOMAS JEFFERSON No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
THOMAS JEFFERSON No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
THOMAS JEFFERSON No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON He who knows best knows how little he knows.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have,...
THOMAS JEFFERSON To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by educat...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working unde...
THOMAS JEFFERSON When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The second office of this government is honorable & easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the stre...
THOMAS JEFFERSON A sense of this necessity, and a submission to it, is to me a new and consolatory proof that whereve...
THOMAS JEFFERSON With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliat...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been sta...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest mode...
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