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No, there is a limit to the tyrant's power! When the oppressed man finds no justice, When the burden grows unbearable, he appeals with fearless heart to heaven, and thence brings down his everlasting rights, which there abide, inalienably his, and indestructible as stars themselves. The primal state of nature reappears, wherein man confronts his fellow man; and if all other means shall fail his need, one last resort remains—his own good sword. The dearest of our goods we may defend From violence. We stand before our country, We stand before our wives, before our children! – Friedrich Schiller	added by Normando 2 years ago
She was my dearest friend, my sister in charity. And adopted sister in life, too. She was what, three, four years older than me? And she was probably the most generous person I’ve ever known. She would do anything to help you. If anybody ever had a problem, she would help as best as she could. Boy, the world lost a great talent when we lost her. – Jesse Grant/WireImage/Getty Images	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I never knew being alone could be so delightful, i’m rich because I have family and friends living all around me. My sister is on one side. My nephew is on the other. One of my dearest friends just moved one block away. We don’t have to have a man, to be happy – not that you couldn’t be with a man – but I’m just happy. – Linda Evans	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
My dearest daughter was wounded, and she was repeatedly calling me 'Dad' before she died. – Harander Singh family	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
For 22 years, I had a courtside seat to watch David in action, he was a mentor and one of my dearest friends. We spent countless hours in the office, at arenas and on planes wherever the game would take us. Like every NBA legend, David had extraordinary talents, but with him it was always about the fundamentals preparation, attention to detail, and hard work. – Adam Silver	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We have lost one of NASCAR's true pioneers, innovators, competitors and an incredible mechanical and business mind. And personally, I have lost one of my dearest friends, while we will miss Junior mightily, his legacy and memory will forever be remembered, preserved, celebrated and cherished at the NASCAR Hall of Fame and in the hearts and minds of race fans around the world. – Winston Kelley	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's been over a decade since I've hit the road but I am thrilled to put together an intimate, elevated evening of new and old tunes, performed with a superb group of musicians( in fact some are my nearest and dearest), i want the show to have threads of what the writing and recording process was like with this band, almost like you've been invited in our living room for an inside glimpse. – Mandy Moore -LRB- @mandymooremm -RRB-	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Im closest with( Jessica Biel), I think we had a very special relationship, growing up in that same world, so weve always stayed in a very tight-knit relationship, jessica Biel is one of my rocks and my dearest friends -- more than a friend, shes like a sister. – Beverley Mitchell	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own. – Sir Richard Francis Burton	added by Normando 4 years ago
His sister was his best friend, to have lost the dearest person in his life... I asked myself, 'What will this child do?'. – Desy Shabani	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
They are my dearest friends. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Finally, I realised that No One, howsoever you may consider dearest to you, will never mend their ways to appeal you, for they will only follow their own nature. Accept it! You may like it or dislike it. The irony is in the process there may be phases in individual’s lives where their actions/ behaviour may appease you, but that’s never to be misunderstood that they have changed for you. From an evolutionary psychology standpoint, that’s a rebellious attitude that shapes our society!” – Ramana Pemmaraju	added by anonymous 6 years ago
I think that we can all agree that we live in a relatively celebrity and fame obsessed culture, i think what's at the heart of Chuck's story is the awareness of the fact that what keeps us on track are those that are nearest and dearest to us, and how important it is to maintain those relationships and focus our energies on those relationships. – Liev Schreiber	Found on CNN 6 years ago
I actually think some of my dearest friends are wrong. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
On trade, I actually think some of my dearest friends are wrong. They're just wrong, if we don't write the rules for trade around the world, guess what: China will. – Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
On every progressive issue, they're right there with me. And then on this one they're like whooping on me, on trade, I actually think some of my dearest friends are wrong. – Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I feel really awful. Here I am doing charity work and one of my dearest friends is being buried. – William Shatner	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern. – Mary Caroline Richards	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ. – Oswald Chambers	added by anonymous 10 years ago
She is a wife who is notable in her house; she is a wife who beareth children; she is a wife whose husband is as her life; she is a wife who is obedient to her lord. The wife is half the man; a wife is man?s dearest friend; a wife is the source of his religion, his worldly profit, and his love. He who hath a wife maketh offerings in his house. Those who have wives are blest with good fortune. Wives are friends, who, by their kind and gentle speech, soothe you in your retirement. In your distresses they are as mothers, and they are refreshment to those who are travellers in the rugged paths of life. – Mahabharata	added by anonymous 12 years ago
But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates. – Plato, Symposium	added by anonymous 13 years ago
My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. – Mary Shelley	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree. Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet And if thou wilt, remember And if thou wilt, forget. – Christina Georgina Rossetti	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart. – Patanjali	added by anonymous 14 years ago

No, there is a limit to the tyrant's power! When the oppressed man finds no justice, When the burden grows unbearable, he appeals with fearless heart to heaven, and thence brings down his everlasting rights, which there abide, inalienably his, and indestructible as stars themselves. The primal state of nature reappears, wherein man confronts his fellow man; and if all other means shall fail his need, one last resort remains—his own good sword. The dearest of our goods we may defend From violence. We stand before our country, We stand before our wives, before our children!

– Friedrich Schiller

added by Normando
2 years ago

She was my dearest friend, my sister in charity. And adopted sister in life, too. She was what, three, four years older than me? And she was probably the most generous person I’ve ever known. She would do anything to help you. If anybody ever had a problem, she would help as best as she could. Boy, the world lost a great talent when we lost her.

– Jesse Grant/WireImage/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I never knew being alone could be so delightful, i’m rich because I have family and friends living all around me. My sister is on one side. My nephew is on the other. One of my dearest friends just moved one block away. We don’t have to have a man, to be happy – not that you couldn’t be with a man – but I’m just happy.

– Linda Evans

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My dearest daughter was wounded, and she was repeatedly calling me 'Dad' before she died.

– Harander Singh family

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

For 22 years, I had a courtside seat to watch David in action, he was a mentor and one of my dearest friends. We spent countless hours in the office, at arenas and on planes wherever the game would take us. Like every NBA legend, David had extraordinary talents, but with him it was always about the fundamentals preparation, attention to detail, and hard work.

– Adam Silver

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We have lost one of NASCAR's true pioneers, innovators, competitors and an incredible mechanical and business mind. And personally, I have lost one of my dearest friends, while we will miss Junior mightily, his legacy and memory will forever be remembered, preserved, celebrated and cherished at the NASCAR Hall of Fame and in the hearts and minds of race fans around the world.

– Winston Kelley

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's been over a decade since I've hit the road but I am thrilled to put together an intimate, elevated evening of new and old tunes, performed with a superb group of musicians( in fact some are my nearest and dearest), i want the show to have threads of what the writing and recording process was like with this band, almost like you've been invited in our living room for an inside glimpse.

– Mandy Moore -LRB- @mandymooremm -RRB-

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Im closest with( Jessica Biel), I think we had a very special relationship, growing up in that same world, so weve always stayed in a very tight-knit relationship, jessica Biel is one of my rocks and my dearest friends -- more than a friend, shes like a sister.

– Beverley Mitchell

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

– Sir Richard Francis Burton

added by Normando
4 years ago

His sister was his best friend, to have lost the dearest person in his life... I asked myself, 'What will this child do?'.

– Desy Shabani

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

They are my dearest friends.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Finally, I realised that No One, howsoever you may consider dearest to you, will never mend their ways to appeal you, for they will only follow their own nature. Accept it! You may like it or dislike it. The irony is in the process there may be phases in individual’s lives where their actions/ behaviour may appease you, but that’s never to be misunderstood that they have changed for you. From an evolutionary psychology standpoint, that’s a rebellious attitude that shapes our society!”

– Ramana Pemmaraju

added by anonymous
6 years ago

I think that we can all agree that we live in a relatively celebrity and fame obsessed culture, i think what's at the heart of Chuck's story is the awareness of the fact that what keeps us on track are those that are nearest and dearest to us, and how important it is to maintain those relationships and focus our energies on those relationships.

– Liev Schreiber

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I actually think some of my dearest friends are wrong.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

On trade, I actually think some of my dearest friends are wrong. They're just wrong, if we don't write the rules for trade around the world, guess what: China will.

– Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

On every progressive issue, they're right there with me. And then on this one they're like whooping on me, on trade, I actually think some of my dearest friends are wrong.

– Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I feel really awful. Here I am doing charity work and one of my dearest friends is being buried.

– William Shatner

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

– Mary Caroline Richards

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

– Oswald Chambers

added by anonymous
10 years ago

She is a wife who is notable in her house; she is a wife who beareth children; she is a wife whose husband is as her life; she is a wife who is obedient to her lord. The wife is half the man; a wife is man?s dearest friend; a wife is the source of his religion, his worldly profit, and his love. He who hath a wife maketh offerings in his house. Those who have wives are blest with good fortune. Wives are friends, who, by their kind and gentle speech, soothe you in your retirement. In your distresses they are as mothers, and they are refreshment to those who are travellers in the rugged paths of life.

– Mahabharata

added by anonymous
12 years ago

But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.

– Plato, Symposium

added by anonymous
13 years ago

My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

– Mary Shelley

added by anonymous
13 years ago

When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree. Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet And if thou wilt, remember And if thou wilt, forget.

– Christina Georgina Rossetti

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

– Patanjali

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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