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There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at tr

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future. – Herman Melville

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A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty. – Herman Melville

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Obedience
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Herman Melville
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Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden – what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear! – Herman Melville

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Clothing
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future. – Barbara Jordan

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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. – John Maynard Keynes

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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. – Lewis Mumford

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Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

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