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The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. – Francis Bacon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. – Thomas Henry Huxley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing. – John Dewey	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry. – Anouk Aimee	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. – Kurt Lewin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini. – Raymond Smullyan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral. – Vernon A. Walters	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The important thing is to know when to laugh, or since laughing is somewhat undignified to smile. But the smile must be of the right kind must have understanding in it, and friendliness, and a good deal of patience. – Roderic Owen	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe. – Dan Quayle	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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