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I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.

This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.