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Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law.

Sonia Sotomayor

Law, Land, Constitution

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I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

Jackie Collins

Book, Inspiration, Thinking

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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

John Ruskin

Men, Trade, Live By

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The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

Michael Polanyi

Enlightenment, Belief, Process

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As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.

Norman Lamm

Law, Privacy, Results

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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

Michel de Montaigne

Inspirational, Faith, Thinking

"The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, p.104, 1989.

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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness, Smile, Laughter

Nathaniel Hawthorne (2001). “The House of the Seven Gables”, p.87, Applewood Books

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What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

Dennis Miller

Funny, Humor, Guilt

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Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Health, Exercise, Air

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If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

Willie Stargell

Sports, Writing, Shows

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I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.

Harri Holkeri

Thinking, Years, Differences

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I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

Albert Ellis

Years, Listening, Six

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I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction.

William Whipple

Giving Up, Thinking, Satisfaction

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So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.

Neil Gaiman

Yearbook, Artist, Phones

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Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.

Alice Hamilton

Real, Medical Problems, Speech

Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.100, Read Books Ltd

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I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.

Boss Tweed

Care, Helping, Newspapers

"Article IV: An Episode in Municipal Government" by Charles F. Wingate, The North American Review (p. 150), July 1875.

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Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him. He would fake you in and then he'd drop you.

Dick Schaap

Fake People, Book, Writing

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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

H. L. Mencken

Party, Past, Political

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I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.

Rory Bremner

Break Up, Home, Wife

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It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.

Susannah McCorkle

Past, Heritage, Magazines

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Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.

Larry Craig

Thinking, President, Stronger

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Thomas Jefferson

Book, 4th Of July, Men

Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.210, Cosimo, Inc.

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Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

Thomas Huxley

Purpose, Credit, Moral

Thomas Henry Huxley (1920). “Readings from Huxley”

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It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.

Mel Torme

New York, Truth, Book

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A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

Laurence Sterne

Dwarves, Size, Standards

Laurence Sterne (1851). “Works of Laurence STerne; Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent., A Sentimental Journay Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, &c”, p.193

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