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In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.

Albert Bushnell Hart American Historian

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Dorothy Canfield Fisher American Author

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

Peter DeFazio American Politician

There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting.

Craig Stevens Australian Athlete

This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view.

Richard Rogers British Architect

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Horace Roman Poet

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

Napoleon Bonaparte French Leader

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

Kathryn Bigelow American Director

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

John B. S. Haldane British Scientist

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca Roman Statesman

I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.

John Astin American Actor

I accepted an offer to do a concert for the reopening of the Mall of Memphis.

Johnny Rivers American Musician

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

Ellen Glasgow American Novelist

Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.

Norman Lear American Producer

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

Jack Benny American Comedian

You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.

Helena Bonham Carter British Actress

But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.

Joshua Chamberlain American Soldier

The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.

John M. Smith

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

Catherine Deneuve French Actress

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Plato Greek Philosopher