"The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter."
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"There is not a place to which the Christian can withdraw from the world, whether it be outwardly or in the sphere of the inner life. Any attempt to escape from the world must sooner or later be paid for with a sinful surrender to the world."
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"In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life."
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"A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be."
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"Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere."
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"There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange"
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"The greater is our sphere of influence, the greater the responsibility."
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"Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable."
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"Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is oversimplified and underestimated, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion."
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"I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres."
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"The bomb goes off in Australia, and a 360-degree sphere of ionosphere (which is up there not too far above your heads, not too many miles) flashes. In other words, the flash in Australia, the ionosphere flashes. People get a secondary kickback from the ionosphere just as though they were standing next to the bomb, don't you see?"
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"In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers."
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"God has given us only a limited sphere of action and a limited vision."
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"I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere."
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"What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?"
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"It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself."
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"It was a perfectly normal gerbil. It appeared to be living in an exciting construction of cylinders, spheres and treadmills, such as the Spanish Inquisition would have devised if they'd had access to a plastics molding press."
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"Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural."
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"The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist."
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"To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness"
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