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Quote by Herman Melville
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

Other quotes by Herman Melville

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head – Herman Melville

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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world. – Herman Melville

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I cant change history, I dont want to change history. I can only change the future. Im working on that. – Boris Becker

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The end of the trial and the not guilty verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art. – LaToya Jackson

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Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized. – Freeman Dyson

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Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you dont win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. – Richard M. Nixon

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One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it. – Helen Hayes

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The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. . . The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced: that is the hyperreal – Jean Baudrillard

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