Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction."
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Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
"In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment."
Plato
Philosopher
"If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice."
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself."
Neil Gaiman
Author
"Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it."
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"The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction."
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"In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS."
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"There are going to be situations where people are going to go without assistance. That's just the facts of life."
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"Jeb Bush admitted that he smoked a notable amount of pot in school. He said, 'You would too if your parents had named you 'Jeb.'"
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"If one cannot imagine Obama saying such a thing — well, he didn't."
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"The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised."
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"The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time."
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"I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless."
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"Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety."
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"It has made mincemeat of Barack Obama's pose of thoughtfulness. It has demonstrated that he lacks even a rudimentary understanding of the most basic economic realities. It has dramatized environmentalism's descent into infantilism."
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"Mitch McConnell, 72, is second only to Henry Clay as the state's most consequential public servant. McConnell's skills have been honed through five terms. He is, however - let us say the worst - not cuddly. National Review has said he has 'an owlish, tight-lipped public demeanor reminiscent of George Will.' Harsh. But true."
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