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Quote by Alexander Hamilton
Man — a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. - Alexand

Man — a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. – Alexander Hamilton

Other quotes by Alexander Hamilton

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things. – Alexander Hamilton

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Change
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Alexander Hamilton
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In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support (salary) is a power over his will. – Alexander Hamilton

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power
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Alexander Hamilton
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I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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There are too many people, and too few human beings. – Robert Zend

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Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. – Sydney Smith

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Im not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and Im always wearing a hat and sunblock. – Carolyn Murphy

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I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldnt say any other way – things I had no words for. – Georgia OKeeffe

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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds? – Robert Browning

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