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A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province. — Henry David Thoreau

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Isn't mockery the province of the insecure? — Roland Merullo

My fellow, you strike me at present as being situated in the moon, kingdom of dream, province of illusion, capital: Soap-Bubble. — Victor Hugo

The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail. — George Muller

War is the province of danger and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior, von Clausewitz maintained. — Joe Haldeman

Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive! — Maurice Duplessis

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is. — John Marshall

But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square? — William Wordsworth

Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again. — Diane Ackerman

Most of the policies that support robust economic growth in the long run are outside the province of the central bank. — Ben Bernanke

Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province. — Huston Smith

A Court of equity knows its own province. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province. — Paolo Bacigalupi

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity. — Alfred De Vigny

Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites. — Gordon Brown

Let's face it: innovation in the U.S. is now the province of our thriving city-states. We all know that nothing happens in Washington anymore. — Tina Brown

No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial. — Agnes Smedley

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. — Karl Popper

Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD. — Jane Leavy

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings — Lincoln Steffens

Innovation is not the exclusive province of New Economy companies. — John McKinley

Late-night shortwave: province of ramblers and dreamers, madmen and ranters. — Anthony Doerr

It is the province of the tarot reader to move backwards, forwards, even sideways in time. — Sasha Graham

In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire

Spontaneity is the province of youth — Jacqueline Carey

Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and ourselves. — Jane Leavy

It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it. — Liam Neeson

The name "Pakistan" was formed as an acronym of Muslim majority regions in India: Punjab, Afghani Province, Kashmir, Sindh and Baluchistan. — Firas Alkhateeb

It is a choice, and therefore within the province of economics. — Jason Potts

For, although one may be very strong in armed forces, yet in entering a province one has always need of the goodwill of the natives. — Niccolo Machiavelli

What did I expect him to say
that he would leave his wife? To do so was the province of fiction. Real life was not as easy as that. — Lynn Cullen

It is the special province of music to move the heart. — Johann Sebastian Bach

It is my province to teach to the church what the doctrine is. It is your province to echo what I say or to remain silent. — Bruce R. McConkie

What does God really look like stripped naked? That's the province of enlightenment ... the formless, perfect face of existence. — Frederick Lenz

What has happened cannot be changed, and so you cannot touch it. Change is the province of the future. — Anthony Ryan

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion. — Stephen Hawking

Success at sports is the province of the almost empty head. — Jonathan Franzen

Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private. — Shawn Amos

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. — John Lilly

I tour as many countries as possible, and I've toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada. — Elton John

I was a National-Socialist and I remain one ... The Germany of today is no longer a great nation, it has become a province of Europe. — Joachim Peiper

The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place. — Ernest Bramah

I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province. — Francis Bacon

The inner nature of man is the province of Music. — Confucius

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. — Frederick The Great

The last thing the Province needs is a minority government — Hazel McCallion

Although many people in Aceh are still poor and vulnerable, the province resembles nothing like the place I saw the day after the tsunami hit. — Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Happiness is the province of those who ask few questions. — Christopher Buehlman

Work is the province of cattle. — Paul T. Rogers

Do nothing to merely interest, assume or attract. This is not your province. Do only that wins the people you are after in the cheapest possible way — Claude C. Hopkins

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees. — Hudson Taylor

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free. — Marcus Garvey

The crowd had the plump, righteous, slightly constipated look that seems the exclusive province of businessmen who belong to the GOP. — Stephen King

I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province. — Anthony Bourdain

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change. — Jim Butcher

Rebelliousness really is the province of young people-that kind of iconoclasm. — Steve Martin

Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason. — C. G. Jung

Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province. — Lord Mountbatten

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul — Robert Henri

His beauty was notable even in a province where the lack of it is more exceptional in a young man. — Tennessee Williams

We no longer want to be a province that is unlike the others, we want to be a country [that will be] like the others. — Pierre Bourgault

With her death Egypt became a Roman province. It would not recover its autonomy until the twentieth century. — Stacy Schiff

No part of marriage is the exclusive province of any one sex. — Katharine Hepburn

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly. — Leonard Cohen

The United States trades more with the province of Ontario alone than with Japan. — Ronald Reagan

Our province needs united leadership and shared purpose in tackling the challenges we face. — Jim Prentice

A humble, bootstrappy patriot, Knox wooed, then married Lucy Flucker, the highbrow daughter of the Loyalist governor of the province of Massachusetts. — Sarah Vowell

When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice. — Ihara Saikaku

This is the province that pioneered dreaming big, — Paul Martin

Consumer society begins at the moment when what was once the province or function of the family and community migrates to the marketplace. — John McKnight

Boredom, as her mother had always told them, was a state to be pitied, the province of the witless. — Kate Morton

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life. — Paula Fox

Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind. — Sara Sheridan

There are two aspects of man's existence which are the special province and expression of his sense of life: love and art. — Ayn Rand

May we not be strangers in the lush province of joy — Charles Wright

God made the Sea of Galilee and its surroundings as they are. Is it the province of Mr. Grimes to improve upon the work? — Mark Twain

War is the province of danger. — Carl Von Clausewitz

To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness. — Allen Ginsberg

I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province. — Maurice Duplessis

Survival has never really been the province of the fittest. Merely the hungriest. — Anonymous

Duplicity was not the sole province of the capital, Bas knew, but the honest inheritance of the entire species. — Daniel Polansky

In the province of the mind, there are no limits. — John C. Lilly

Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem. — Edgar Allan Poe