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• I hate the phrase “One thing led to another”. What kind of lazy writing is that? Isn't it your job as a writer to tell me how that made this happen? “Adolf Hitler was rejected as a young man in his application to an art school. One thing led to anotherand the United States ended up dropping two atomic bombs on the sovereign nation of Japan”.

  Brian Regan

  Art, Jobs, Hate

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• In Europe one needs to act ‘as if’ – as if what was wanted was little, in order to obtain much, as if States were to remain sovereign to convince them to concede sovereignty … The Commission in Brussels, for example, should act as if it were a technical instrument, in order to be able to be treated as a government. And so on by disguise and subterfuge.

  Giuliano Amato

  Government, Order, Europe

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• Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

  James Anthony Froude

  Nature, Self, Denial

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.24

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• A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.

  Pliny the Elder

  Death, Human Life, Humans

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• A prince, the moment he is crown'd,
  Inherits every virtue sound,
  As emblems of the sovereign power,
  Like other baubles in the Tower:
  Is generous, valiant, just, and wise,
  And so continues till he dies.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Sound, Towers

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• Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Love, Men, Occupation

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• God -- if he really exist -- is good, alive, self-conscious, and governs all things according to his benevolent and holy providence; but the world shows no indications of such a benevolent and holy Providence. This earth appears to be a hell, or at best a planet condemned -- a sort of purgatory: it is filled with violence, tyranny and injustice, and yet God, if he exist, is absolute sovereign, and has willed that things should be as they are! -- Therefore there is no God.

  William Batchelder Greene

  God, Self, Alive

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• The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies.

  Oliver Ellsworth

  Body, Constitution, States

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• When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances and to seize each new opportunity. It doesn't approach an object with prejudice or preconception, but handles each thing dispassionately before embracing it and, if necessary, finds advantage in what opposes it. It is like fire in this regard. Whereas a feeble flame might suffocate under a pile of dry sticks, a robust fire consumes everything it touches. The more objects of any kind heaped on it, the higher it rises, the hotter it burns.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Opportunity, Fire, Flames

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• There can be no more intimate and elemental part of the individual than his or her own consciousness. At the deepest level, our consciousness is what we are - to the extent that if we are not sovereign over our own consciousness then we cannot in any meaningful sense be sovereign over anything else either.

  Graham Hancock

  Meaningful, Levels, Consciousness

  Graham Hancock (2015). “The Divine Spark: Psychedelics, Consciousness and the Birth of Civilization”, p.8, Hay House, Inc

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• Lift up yourselves, men, take yourselves out of the mire and hitch your hopes to the very stars themselves. Let no man pull you down, let no man destroy your ambition, because man is but your companion, your equal; man is your brother; he is not your Lord, he is not your sovereign master.

  Marcus Garvey

  Brother, Stars, Ambition

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.58, Ravenio Books

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• Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Love, Warrior, Relaxation

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• If you are experiencing confusion, pain, and suffering, it may be that God is working things out for you in his own way. It is most often the sovereign work of our God unfolding a master plan known only to him.

  David Wilkerson

  Pain, Confusion, Suffering

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• When you are before the altar where Christ reposes, you ought no longer to think that you are amongst men; but believe that there are troops of angels and archangels standing by you, and trembling with respect before the sovereign Master of Heaven and earth. Therefore, when you are in church, be there in silence, fear, and veneration.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Believe, Angel, Men

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• If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don't believe in God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Believe, Ifs, Believe In God

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• In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Order, Chimera, Term

  R. C. Sproul (2016). “What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics”, p.22, Baker Books

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• Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Death, Warp, Partiality

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.429

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• Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.

  William Hazlitt

  Pride, Littles, Kingdoms

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.468

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• Each state enjoys sovereign power.

  Gouverneur Morris

  States, Enjoy, Sovereignty

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• Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good. The gratitude of the nation to the sovereign arbiter of all human events should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy. Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

  James K. Polk

  Country, Gratitude, Blessing

  James K. Polk (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce”, p.2479, Wildside Press LLC

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• To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to seek his own happiness; a republican form of government in which the people would be sovereign; and no arbitrary power over people's lives. Less than two hundred years later, almost every aspect of the dream has been lost.

  Charles A. Reich

  Dream, Men, Years

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows;Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd bower.Yet, were she willing to be pluck'd and worn,She would be gather'd, though she grew on thorn.

  Robert Greene

  Would Be, Thorns, Compass

  Robert Greene, “Fawnia”

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• I do not propose to our British ladies, that they should turn Amazons in the service of their sovereign, nor so much as let their nails grow for the defence of their country. The men will take the work of the field off their hands, and show the world, that English valour cannot be matched when it is animated by English beauty.

  Joseph Addison

  Country, Men, Hands

  Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator”, p.49

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• The kingdom of God which is within us consists in our willing whatever God wills, always, in every thing, and without reservation; and thus His kingdom comes; for His will is then done as it is in heaven, since we will nothing but what is dictated by His sovereign pleasure.

  Francois Fenelon

  Heaven, Done, Kingdoms

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.112, Lulu.com

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• Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.

  David Mamet

  Regret, Might, Talismans

  David Mamet (2015). “Mamet Plays: 5: Boston Marriage; Dr Faustus; Romance”, p.106, Bloomsbury Publishing

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