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Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings. ”
Orangutan babies are like human babies: helpless. ”
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding. ”
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this. ”
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy. ”
When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights. ”
Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice. ”
Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government. ”
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare. ”
When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. ”