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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power. Harriet Martineau

Power Half Society Other Civilization Over Sure Sought None Test Condition Which

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Success You Will Thought Whatever Nothing More Talent Come Well Sought Because Without Doing Fame Than After Success Is Deserved

I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've sought there is instruction, variation from the demands of film and relief from its restrictions. John Williams

Work Relief Composer Variation Restrictions Small Small Part Part Demands Pieces Instruction Concert Sought Been Done Frustrated Film

We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman. Lilly Ledbetter

Work Me Justice Woman Fight Decision Value Overtime Pay Side Took Way Those Ten Ten Years Retirement Equal Equal Pay Supreme Supreme Court Equal Work Sought Because Court Am Years American Stood Just Just Because Who

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. Margaret Oliphant

Rule Temptations General General Rule Come Sought

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. Vaclav Havel

Experience Words Other More Absence Absurdity Sought In Other Words Meaning Deeper

From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation. W. E. B. Du Bois

Government Day Equality Black Men Half Nation Birth Those More Voices New Powers Anomaly Sought Within Said Sound Governed Than Which Forming Derive Who Asserted Population Lived Nearly Million Consent Slavery Slaves

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Truth Light Rarely Sought After

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill. Bill Gates

Religion Science People Weather Before Creation Some Myths Like Sought Felt Understand False Began Disease Explanations Them Mankind Richard Really Realm Used Agree Fill Filled Now Things Need

In the years after the expedition to Chad, I started the Honnold Foundation, a small nonprofit that was my attempt to do something positive in the world. I sought out projects that both helped the environment and improved peoples' standards of living. The more I researched, the more I gravitated toward solar. Alex Honnold

Positive People World Solar Living Projects Out Something More Small Both Attempt Environment Toward Sought Nonprofit Years Improved Expedition After Standards Helped Chad Foundation Started

My grandparents bowed to the Americans and sought to learn from them. My parents sought to be them. Alex Tizon

Parents Learn Sought American Them Grandparents

My Botswana books are positive, and I've never really sought to deny that. They are positive. They present a very positive picture of the country. And I think that that is perfectly defensible given that there is so much written about Africa which is entirely negative. Alexander McCall Smith

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door. Alexandre Dumas

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From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless. Ban Ki-moon

Time Vision Beginning My Time Voice Voiceless Advance Practical Sought Defender

Mandela was a guy who didn't come in and just eviscerate the existing institutions. He sought to co-opt them. He brought white South Africans into his government. Ben Rhodes

Government White Brought Guy He Come Institutions Sought His South Existing Just Mandela African Them Who

President Zardari came to power just as the global recession hit. He had to cobble together an unruly coalition, put up with a constant assault from a conservative supreme court who sought to undermine him at every term. This does not include dealing with Pakistani's omnipotent establishment and the menace of terrorism. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

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The DISCLOSE Act is a testament to the wisdom of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United. The First Amendment sought to place political speech beyond the government's control, and we can be glad that it did. Bradley A. Smith

Wisdom Government Political Decision First Disclose Control Citizens Glad First Amendment Beyond Supreme Sought Court Testament Amendment Political Speech Did Place Act United Speech

Love becomes logically true when lost but still sought from the same source. Brian Celio

Love Lost Logically True Sought Becomes Still Source Same

The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations. Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Today Peace World World Peace Valid Frames Danger Threat Longer Force Sought Reference Sovereign Nations Ends Achieving Use

One of my biggest fears with 'Coloring Book' was that it would be labeled. I hate labels. I never sought out for people to recognize it as a gospel album. Chance The Rapper

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