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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

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The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council. ↗

— David Petraeus

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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

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I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

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The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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