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The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal.

Herbert Croly

Swag, Democratic Ideals, Achievement

Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.

Hudson Stuck

Snow, Ridges

Hudson Stuck (2007). “Ascent of Denali”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.

Samuel Johnson

Kings, Heart, Law

Lines added to Oliver Goldsmith's The Traveller (1764)

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I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.

Robert Sternberg

Kids, Math, Groups

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It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Hands, Giving

Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.207, North Point Press

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In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

Alan Dundes

Trying, Students, Genre

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And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

Daniel J. Evans

Engineering, Choices, Training

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I’ve spent too many years explaining who and what I am repeatedly, so as of this moment I officially secede from both races. I plan to start my own separate nation. Because I am half Ojibway and half Caucasian, we will be called the Occasions. And of course, since I’m founding the new nation, I will be a Special Occasion.

Drew Hayden Taylor

Funny, Race, Years

Drew Hayden Taylor (1998). “Funny, You Don't Look Like One: Observations of a Blue-eyed Ojibway”, Penticton, B.C. : Theytus Books, l998.

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There’s plenty that poetry cannot do. But the miracle, of course, is how much it can do, how much it does do.

Mary Szybist

Miracle, Doe, Can Do

"Members Of 'Lonely Craft' Gather For National Book Awards". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 21, 2013.

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Running gives freedom. When you run you can determine your own tempo. You can choose your own course and think whatever you want. Nobody tells you what to do.

Nina Kuscsik

Running, Thinking, Giving

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The most important part of a RPG is the player feeling like they are taking the role of a character in a fully realised fantasy world. They can explore, visit various towns and places, talk to people, customise their character, collect various items, and defeat monsters. The story is not the focus of the experience and is only there to make the atmosphere of the fantasy world more interesting and engaging during the course of the game.

Yuji Horii

Character, Player, Games

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The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because before punk rock happened, you couldn't start a band if you didn't know how to play an instrument. But when punk happened it was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter if you can play or not. Go ahead, make a band.' And that's exactly what the Go-Go's did.

Jane Wiedlin

Rocks, Play, Band

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The more you study the course, the more you appreciate what a great test it is.

Phil Mickelson

Appreciate, Tests, Study

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Of course, western is my native music.

Ken Curtis

Western, Native

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It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve - the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.

Oscar Niemeyer

Country, Men, Curves

"Plans, Sections and Elevations: Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century". Book by Richard Weston, 2004.

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Israel demonstrated real hooliganism during the course of the recent operation, which I demanded.

Tzipi Livni

Real, Israel, Operations

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It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

Wendell Berry

Miracle, Germs, Poison

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Information is moving - you know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it's also moving through the blogosphere and through the Internets.

George W. Bush

Moving, Information, Way

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Of course we're after Iraq.. eh.. Saddam Hussein.. I mean bin Laden.

George W. Bush

Mean, Iraq, Hussein

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In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

Robin Morgan

Running, Giving Up, Men

Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.39, Open Road Media

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All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars but the pop books. And the other thing they said was, 'You have to confront the oppressor.' I understand that. But you don't have to look at the world through his eyes. I'm not a stereotype; I'm not somebody else's version of who I am. And so when people said at that time black is beautiful – yeah? Of course. Who said it wasn't? So I was trying to say, in The Bluest Eye, wait a minute. Guys. There was a time when black wasn't beautiful. And you hurt.

Toni Morrison

Beautiful, Hurt, Book

"Toni Morrison: 'I want to feel what I feel. Even if it's not happiness'". Interview With Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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Anger should be especially kept down in punishing, because he who comes to punishment in wrath will never hold that middle course which lies between the too much and the too little. It is also true that it would be desirable that they who hold the office of Judges should be like the laws, which approach punishment not in a spirit of anger but in one of equity.

Johannes Voet

Lying, Anger, Law

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Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

Aristotle

Art, States, Capacity

Aristotle (2007). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.143, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.

John Donne

Exercise, Miracle, Done

'LXXX Sermons' (1640) Easter Day, 25 March 1627

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Sure they say we (women) are life givers not takers, but guess what, most women can multi-task and be life givers and fighters. Boxing is not a life-taking sport. Boxing is not a violent sport; it's an art, a dance, a science. Sometimes the smarter boxer wins and sometimes the stronger boxer wins. Of course aggression is a feminine quality. It's a quality that exists in human beings whether they are men or women.

Sonya Lamonakis

Sports, Art, Winning

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