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In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed. -- Bhumibol Adulyadej
We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'. -- Dan Quayle
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. -- Edward Gibbon
For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare. -- Nelson A. Miles
The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination. -- James Monroe
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization. -- Mercy Otis Warren
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. -- George Bancroft
Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives. -- Gunter Grass
In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue. -- Ethan Allen
The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them. -- Fanny Kemble
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. -- Edward Gibbon
Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. -- Thomas Malthus
After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book. -- Barbara W. Tuchman
In Indonesia, where I am from, the Dutch-imposed Civil Code dating back to the colonial 1870s prevailed until the 1974 Law on Marriage granted married women greater rights, including the ability to open individual bank accounts. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international legitimacy and domestic support. Desert Storm demonstrated the political necessity of coalition warfare. -- Michael Ignatieff
The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed. -- Fanny Kemble
All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, and the feeling - right or wrong - that aloneness is my proper position has prevailed since my early childhood, no doubt nourished and strengthened by many and quick-following bereavements. -- Dorothea Dix
Economics evolved as a more moral and more egalitarian approach to policy than prevailed in its surrounding milieu. Let's cherish and extend that heritage. The real contributions of economics to human welfare might turn out to be very different from what most people - even most economists - expect. -- Tyler Cowen
Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight. -- Evander Holyfield
Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born. -- Ronald Syme
Tonight, let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11. -- Barack Obama
An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed. -- Samuel Johnson
To consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle. -- James Madison
Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors. -- Ameen Rihani
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference. -- Charley Reese
Mere nails, though pounded deep, were not enough to keep Jesus on the cross. But love was... and love prevailed. -- Louie Giglio
There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination. -- Robert Breault
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. -- Charles Darwin
I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years. -- Gary Bauer
Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error. -- Thomas Jefferson
A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed. -- H. L. Mencken
The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her. -- Jacques Maritain
America is or should be about inclusion. Immigrants like muslims don't and can't fit the white European mold that prevailed in this country 50 years ago. -- Tom Gjelten
The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity. -- John Adams
Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season. -- Nadine Gordimer
Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world, and you will scarcely be persuaded that they are anything but sick men's dreams. -- David Hume
There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed on; and it will be so whilst we live in this world. -- John Owen
We are all proud of is World War II where we went in, we were decisive, we came to the conclusion that freedom prevailed, and we were heroes. -- John F. Kerry
The universe is eight billion years old, the last two billion of which have produced intelligent life. During this time not one hour of absolute equity has prevailed. -- Jack Vance
The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind. -- Titus Lucretius Carus
Let him be fifty feet away, let him not even speak to you, let him not even see you, he permeated, he prevailed, he imposed himself. He changed everything. -- Virginia Woolf
It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not. -- Stephen Ambrose
It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossible that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless. -- John Newton
Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a while by violence, military, civil, or ecclesiastical. -- Thomas Jefferson
Thus, the isolated interference with one or a few prices of consumer goods always bring about effects-and this is important to realize-which are even less satisfactory than the conditions that prevailed before. -- Ludwig von Mises
In dealing with Syria's dictator...only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus. -- William Safire
So long has the myth of feminine inferiority prevailed that women themselves find it hard to believe that their own sex was once and for a very long time the superior and dominant sex. -- Elizabeth Gould Davis
Lets cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
...if you can think of meetings you've attended, you can probably recall a time - plenty of times - when the opinion of the most dynamic or talkative person prevailed to the detriment of all. -- Susan Cain
The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. -- Albert Einstein

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