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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

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Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. – Herman Melville

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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. – Herman Melville

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The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether well rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually. – Joshua Foer

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The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every Americans rights into consideration. – Ron Wyden

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We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth. – Maurice Strong

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The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. – Jean Rhys

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In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. – Gerald Brenan

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