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I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.

The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.

Rookwood garnered wide critical and financial success, and pleased his associates at Fraser's Magazine.

I appeal to your own eyes as my witness and judge.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

Any one may mouth out a passage with theatrical cadence or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts. But to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task.

I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.

Her wavy, shoulder-length hair was the colour of polished mahogany.

Bolinas, California

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

when I see an author on this week's talk show promoting his Secret to Happiness, I can't help wondering what happened to last week's Secret on the same show.

The word violence comes from roots that mean "the undue use of force." Thought that imposes or defends is violent.

The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell.

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits

I wished, by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her to become one.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

I argue that the disappearance of work and the consequences of that disappearance for both social and cultural life are the central problems in the inner-city ghetto.

preferred the more informal service of the Methodists to the religious rigor of the Lutherans, who were as ubiquitous in Minnesota as ragweed.

his experience, only people acted out of pure malice.

You tell stories but they're real. There are monsters and they eat the hearts of children.

William Kent Krueger