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Tag Name "Schemes" (340)

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The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.
Thomas Jefferson
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I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things.
Jai Rodriguez
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There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.
Matt Taibbi
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Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.
Norman Mailer
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The DSA scheme has not been reviewed for 25 years
David Willetts
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You can detect Satan's schemes and overcome his world system.
Adrian Rogers
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Using some economic issues to make one group of people, regardless of race or religion, the scapegoat for all the problems of the country is just the stupidest, and yet, the most creative propaganda scheme that you can come up with.
Immortal Technique
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We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and that to banish the knight does not alleviate the suffering of the peasant.
C. S. Lewis
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As president, Nixon imposed wage and price controls, created the Environmental Protection Agency, initiated race-based hiring schemes, signed SALT I with the Soviets and instituted rapprochement with the Red Chinese. All of this resulted in liberals ... despising him even more!
Ann Coulter
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I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned with where we, as a race, may be going and what may be our purpose in the universal scheme — if we have a purpose. In general, I believe we do, and perhaps an important one.
Clifford D. Simak
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The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters in the State administrations as are capable of preferring their own emolument and advancement to the public weal.
Alexander Hamilton
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A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better understood, seemed highly probable to many of the aspiring wits in the last century
Samuel Johnson
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The scheme of a game is played on positional lines the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.
Richard Reti
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Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.
H. L. Mencken
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A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled a conceptual scheme is either modified or replaced by a better one, never abandoned with nothing left to take its place.
James Bryant Conant
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American Medical Association [AMA] was strongly opposed to any scheme for group practice and to health insurance ... because they are un-American.
Morris Fishbein
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Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.
John Dewey
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There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there's no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.
Jack McDevitt
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We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.
Pema Chodron
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When everything flows into place ? washes dry tonally correct, crisp and sparkling, the light scheme is sound and the accidentals are all happy ones ? I'm temporarily in a euphoric state.
Bill Luff
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You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance - a topic we should never discuss: the very name of love is an apple of discord between us. If the reality were required, what should we do? How should we feel? My dear cousin, abandon your scheme of marriage - forget it.
Charlotte Bronte
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I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.
Arnold Bennett
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The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible and the best tax is always the lightest.
Jean-Baptiste Say
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Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book on munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. Then he remembered that his library card had been revoked.
John Kennedy Toole
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