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By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.

~Edward Livingston

Topics: Act Acts Alone Constitute Crime Empowered Fix His Law Looks Make Mind President Shall Thoughts Words

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Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

~Edward Sapir

Topics: Activity Alone Become Beings Expression Human Human Beings Language Live Medium Mercy Much Nor Objective Ordinarily Particular Social Society Understood Very Which World

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Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there's a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. And I'm no longer alone.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Alone Amount Away Because Big Consequences Crossed Each Each Individual Every Individual Inequality Inhumanity Injustice Intimidating Life Limit Line Longer Looked Moment Person Remembers Seemed Small Some Tolerate Too Where Witnessed

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By all means use some time to be alone.

~Edward Young

Topics: Alone Means Some Time Use

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Virtue alone has majesty in death.

~Edward Young

Topics: Alone Death Majesty Virtue

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For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover.

~Edwin Arlington Robinson

Topics: Alone Begins Discover Knows Later Left Man May Much She Sooner Sooner Or Later Then Think Too Too Much Woman

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There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

~Edwin Markham

Topics: Alone Back Brothers Destiny Goes His His Way Lives Makes None Others Our Own Send Us Way Which

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Spain held the doctrine (and was right in holding it) that every human enterprise should stand on two pillars - the temporal and the spiritual. To depend upon one of these pillars alone is to call down final failure upon any undertaking.

~Edwin Markham

Topics: Alone Any Call Depend Doctrine Down Enterprise Every Failure Final Held Holding Human Pillars Right Should Spain Spiritual Stand Temporal Two Undertaking

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Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

~Edwin Way Teale

Topics: About Alone Become Great May Move Space Time Time And Space Tomorrow Well

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I have acquired - some would say deservedly - quite a few rivals: former Israeli politicians, some of whom at their height were stars beloved by large parts of the public. But today, they aren't in politics, and when they sit alone in their room, they say to themselves that Barak is the one who showed them out the door.

~Ehud Barak

Topics: Acquired Alone Beloved Door Few Former Height Israeli Large Out Parts Politicians Politics Public Quite Rivals Room Say Sit Some Stars Them Themselves They Say Today Were Who Whom Would

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