"The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race."
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"God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation."
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"Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win."
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"When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive."
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"It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been."
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"This car of mine, I am tickled to death with it. The machine is nearly everything, its power, stability and balance. The driver, allowing for his experience and courage, is much less."
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"You have a race problem that must be solved, or else you will alienate every non-white person on this earth within the next few years, or within the next few months."
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"The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual."
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"Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor."
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"A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature."
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"The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races."
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"Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings."
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"Deterrence failed completely as a guide in setting rational limits on the size and composition of military forces, spurring an insatiable arms race with a reckless proliferation of the most destructive power ever unleashed, tailored for delivery by a vast array of vehicles to a stupefying array of targets."
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"Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty."
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"Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased."
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"Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act."
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"If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race."
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"Above all we need, particularly as children, the reassuring presence of a visible community, an intimate group that enfolds us with understanding and love, and that becomes an object of our spontaneous loyalty, as a criterion and point of reference for the rest of the human race."
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"When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it."
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"What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason."
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