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• There are, perhaps, few men who can for any length of time enjoy office and power without being more or less under the influence of feelings unfavorable to the faithful discharge of their political duties.

  Andrew Jackson

  Men, Office, Political

  Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.48

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• I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. It is more than probable that the evil effects of the human aggressive drives, explained by Sigmund Freud as the results of a special death wish, simply derive from the fact that in prehistoric times intra-specific selection bred into man a measure of aggression drive for which in the social order today he finds no adequate outlet.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Believe, Men, Order

  KONRAD LORENZ (1963). “ON AGRESSION”

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• There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Freedom, Self, Government

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• ... women of the North, I ask you to rise up with earnest, honest purpose, and go forward in the way of right, fearlessly, as independent human beings, responsible to God alone for the discharge of every duty, for the faithful use of every gift, the good Father has given you. Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world will say, whether you are in your place or out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, do your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.

  Susan B. Anthony

  War, Father, Independent

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Matilda Gage (2017). “HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE Trilogy – Part 1 (Illustrated): The Origin of the Movement - Lives and Battles of Pioneer Suffragists (Including Letters, Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)”, p.1197, e-artnow

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• Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.

  William James

  Character, Sea, Feelings

  William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.

  Arlen Specter

  President, Looks, Reason

  "Transcript: Sens. Schumer, Specter on 'FOX News Sunday'". "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. April 22, 2007.

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• [T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by means of volcanoes, those burning mountains that seem to discharge their materials from the lowest abysses of the earth.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Mean, Science, Volcanoes

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.26

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• Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Responsibility, Youth, Sober

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (1970). “Collected works”

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• No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.

  George Washington

  President, Delay, Redemption

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.120

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• I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity as absolute and palpable as if Congress had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Fall, Law, Punishment

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.24

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• If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Rights, Leaving

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.243, Courier Corporation

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• I can now state that I have succeeded in operating a motive device by means of [cosmic rays]. I will tell you in the most general way, the cosmic ray ionizes the air, setting free many charges - ions and electrons. These charges are captured in a condenser which is made to discharge through the circuit of the motor.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, Air, Ions

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• Girl who sit on Judge's lap get honorable discharge.

  Confucius

  Funny, Girl, Witty

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• Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.

  Richard Steele

  Laughter, Symphony, May

  Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1822). “The Guardian”, p.116

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• In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

  John Locke

  Example, Imitation, Thee

  John Locke (1813). “The Conduct of the Understanding: With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon”, p.129

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• At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Debt, World

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.64, Library of Alexandria

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• No person shall be restrained of his liberty but by regular process from a court of justice, authorized by a general law. . . . On complaint of an unlawful imprisonment to any judge whatsoever, he shall have the prisoner immediately brought before him and shall discharge him if his imprisonment be unlawful. The officer in whose custody the prisoner is shall obey the order of the judge, and both judge and officer shall be responsible civilly and criminally for a failure of duty herein.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Order, Justice

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• Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Friendship, Passion, Doubt

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1856). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Clerus domini. Office ministerial. Discourse of friendship. Rules and advices to the clergy. Heber's Life of Bp. Taylor, and indexes to the ten volumes”, p.77

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