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• In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

  Dave Barry

  School, Literature, Students

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway”, p.28, Ballantine Books

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• Let the dream unroll itself to its very end. You cannot help it. But you can look at the dream as a dream, refuse it the stamp of reality.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Dream, Reality, Looks

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• Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence; of worth for more than one day?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Writing, One Day, Authenticity

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.63

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• I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp.

  John Cheever

  Dream, Faces, Fame

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• It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Civilization, Mind, Example

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “Robert Louis Stevenson”

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• The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid.

  Franklin Raines

  Unemployment, Economy, Food Stamps

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• Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Portraits, Currency, Statutes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.250, Harvard University Press

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• Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.

  Nikky Finney

  Watches, Alphabet, Film

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• I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is wrong to think of science as a mechanical record of facts, and it is wrong to think of the arts as remote and private fancies. What makes each human, what makes them universal, is the stamp of the creative mind.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Science, Thinking

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “Science and Human Values”, p.23, Faber & Faber

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• In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.

  Augustus William Hare

  Individuality, Peer Pressure, Life Is

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.

  Rolf Potts

  Country, Travel, Home

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• The Book of Mormon is the "keystone" of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the capstone, with continuing latter-day revelation.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Book, Covenant, Approval

  "The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson".

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• The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.

  C. S. Lewis

  Jesus, Rights, Religion

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• Each person discovers a field of allurements, the totality of which bears the unique stamp of that person’s personality. Destiny unfolds in the pursuit of individual fascinations and interests... By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.

  Brian Swimme

  Passion, Pursuit Of Happiness, Unique

  "The universe is a green dragon". Book by Brian Swimme, www.context.org. 1984.

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• Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Eternity, Lord, Eyeballs

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• God must've had a blast. painting the stripes on the zebra, hanging the stars in the sky, putting the gold in the sunset. What creativity!
  Stretching the neck of the giraffe, putting the flutter in the mockingbird's wings, planting the giggle in the hyena. And then, as a finale to a brilliant performance, He made a human who had the unique honour to bear the stamp, In His Image.

  Max Lucado

  Stars, Zebras, Sunset

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• For a man is a little lower than the angels, yet was made that he might become the companion of the Creative Forces; and thus was given--in the breath of life--the individual soul, the stamp of approval as it were of the Creator; with the ability to know itself to be itself, and to make itself, as one with the Creative Forces--irrespective of other influences.

  Edgar Cayce

  Angel, Men, Creative

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• It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Thinking, Tyrants

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part II: "Freedom and the Law". Chapter 9: "Coercion and the State", 1960.

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• It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.

  George Washington

  Country, Ambition, Views

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.63

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• It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to stamp out terrorism, install democracy, eliminate fascism, and most entertainingly, to "rid the world of evil-doers.

  Arundhati Roy

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.133, Penguin Books India

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• The most powerful country in world history, which is sure to set its stamp on what follows, placed the entire government (executive, legislative, judicial branches) in the hands of an organization - the Republican Party - dedicated to escalating the race to disaster.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Powerful, Party

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

  Newt Gingrich

  Successful, President, American History

  "Gingrich promises to slash taxes, calls Obama ‘food stamp president’" by Philip Rucker, www.washingtonpost.com. May 13, 2011 May 13, 2011.

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• I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945.

  Hilary Mantel

  Lying, Book, School

  "Author, author: I once stole a book ..." by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2009.

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• Even if I'd stayed [in the US to finish 'The Magnificent Ambersons'] I would've had to make compromises on the editing, but these would've been mine and not the fruit of confused and often semi-hysterical committees. If I had been there myself I would have found my own solutions and saved the pictures in a form which would have carried the stamp of my own effort.

  Orson Welles

  Confused, Editing, Effort

  "This is Orson Welles". Book by Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, 1992.

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• Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.

  Henri Bergson

  Laughter, Kindness, Taken

  Henri Bergson (2014). “Key Writings”, p.478, Bloomsbury Publishing

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