Charles Evans Hughes Quotes
While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.
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I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.
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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
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What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
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One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.
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While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
