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• If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it.

  George Washington

  Religious, Rights, Honor

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1848). “pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.155

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• If Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with President Kennedy's assassination and was framed....this otherwise independent and defiant would-be revolutionary, who disliked taking orders from anyone, turned out to be the most willing and cooperative frame-ee in the history of mankind!! Because the evidence of his guilt is so monumental, that he could have just as well gone around with a large sign on his back declaring in bold letters 'I Just Murdered President John F. Kennedy'!!!

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Independent, Order, President Kennedy's Assassination

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• By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into sound of fair quality, but that did not satisfy him. He worked for a while on vibrations picked up from panes of glass in windows and on framed pictures, and he experimented briefly with the diaphragms in speaker systems, intercoms and telephones. He kept on into October without stopping, and finally achieved a device that would give tinny but recognizable sound from any vibrating surface - a wall, a floor, even the speaker's own cheek or forehead.

  Damon Knight

  Wall, Glasses, Giving

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• We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat bikes and minibikes. The grown-ups looked so silly framed in their living-room and kitchen windows. They complained about their days and signed deep sighs of depression and loss. They talked about how spoiled and lucky children were these days. We will never be that way, we said, we will never say those things.

  Jill McCorkle

  Children, Silly, Kids

  Jill McCorkle (2003). “Creatures of Habit”, p.1, Algonquin Books

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• For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It’s what’s cast in bronze, or framed in sepia tones, or acted out with wax dummies and period furniture. It takes place in glass bubbles filled with water and chunks of plastic snow; it’s stamped on souvenir pencils and summarized in reprint newspapers. History nowadays is recorded in memorabilia. If you can’t purchase a shopping bag that alludes to something, people won’t believe it ever happened.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Believe, Shopping, Glasses

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• The image of how power shows itself to the public is important... CNN was an inspiration to do the project in color because power confirms itself through television... I thought it would be interesting to copy the same language. large color pictures are framed in heavy wooden frames with golden plates and hung slightly higher than normal. So viewers get a sore neck watching these events, this is also the case when looking at paintings of saints in cathedrals.

  Carl De Keyzer

  Inspiration, Color, Cnn

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• Of all the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary. Whilst the objection itself is levelled against a pretended oligarchy, the principle of it strikes at the very root of republican government.

  James Madison

  Government, Roots, Principles

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government”, p.307, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beautiful, Unique, Space

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1967). “SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their own rhetoric.

  George Friedman

  Adventure, Issues, Goal

  George Friedman (2011). “The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going”, p.3, Anchor

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• Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from every divine and human office and calling.

  Martin Luther

  Astrology, People, Office

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.343

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• No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, May, Administration

  Abraham Lincoln (1991). “Great Speeches”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Artist, Light

  Henry David Thoreau, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “Journal, ed. by B. Torrey, 1837-1846, 1850-Nov. 3, 1861”

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• The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos of phenomena.

  William Cecil Dampier

  Science, Order, Mind

  William Cecil Dampier Dampier-Whetham M.A., F.R.S. (1931). “A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy & Religion”

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• Outside his office my father had a framed copy of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to his son's teacher, translated into Pashto. It is a very beautiful letter, full of good advice. Teach him, if you can, the wonder of books...But also give him quiet time to ponder the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun, and the flowers on a green hillside, it says. Teach him it is far more honorable to fail than to cheat.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Beautiful, Teacher, Father

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• The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights when endangered by aggregated capital and all statutes on this subject should recognize the care of the State for honest toil and be framed with a view of improving the condition of the workingman

  Grover Cleveland

  Rights, Views, Class

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

  H. L. Mencken

  Hypothesis, Accounts

  "The American Mercury" Magazine, February 1926.

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• The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.

  Iris Murdoch

  Loneliness, Games, Soul

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.89, Penguin

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• I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen.

  Aziz Ansari

  Cutting, Gentleman, Band

  "Questions for Aziz Ansari" by Jessica Grose, www.slate.com. August 12, 2011.

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• Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.

  Tom McCall

  Hero, Responsibility, Sky

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• Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed and glassed, lest March, that bold young fellow, should shake the life out.of it in his rough play among the flowers? or is it a hardy shrub, which rejoices when the wild winds course along the heather or howl above the crest of Lebanon ' We need, believe me, the bravery of godliness to bear true witness for our Master now.

  William Morley Punshon

  Flower, Believe, Men

  William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.9, Adam, Stevenson

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• The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Atheism, Constitution, Freedom Of Religion

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• For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beauty, Beautiful, Flower

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• It’s time we framed every question - every issue -- not in terms of what’s in it for ‘me,’ but what’s in it for all of us?

  John F. Kerry

  Issues, Term

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• God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.

  William Matthews

  Ideas, Choices, Coercion

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• The one who decides who goes ahead has the upper hand, regardless of who gets to go. This is why many women do not feel empowered by such privileges as having doors held open for them. The advantage of going first through the door is less salient to them than the disadvantage of being granted the right to walk through a door by someone who is framed, by his magnanimous gesture, as the arbiter of the right-of-way.

  Deborah Tannen

  Power, Doors, Hands

  Deborah Tannen (1986). “That's not what I meant!: how conversational style makes or breaks relationships”

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