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To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time. ↗

— George William Norris

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My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done. ↗

— Douglass North

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I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research. ↗

— Douglass North

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When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco. ↗

— Douglass North

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I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one. ↗

— Oliver North

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There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

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My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs. ↗

— Anne Northup

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If a war be undertaken... before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime. ↗

— Charles Eliot Norton

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We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. ↗

— Caroline Norton

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