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"The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed."
"It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker."
"The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation."
"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."
"It was thought that to rally Islam against godless communism would be doing the Soviet Union a very bad turn indeed, and that, in fact, transpired."
"At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with this last compassionate, unspoken message: You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here."
"We are in a new Civil War, and just like the last, it is a struggle for the sanctity of the Union - and it's hardly civil."
"The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is often the most natural."
"The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe."
"The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union."
"Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible"
"Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything."
"One of the issues that has been an issue in how we deal with net migration up until now is that we haven't been able to have any control over freedom of movement from the European Union. We will have that control in the future once we leave the EU."
"If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party."
"The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It's terrible."
"When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction."
"Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation."
"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it."
"I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina."
"'Do you think that we shall ever be admitted as a State into the Union without denying the principle of polygamy?' If we are not admitted until then, we shall never be admitted."
