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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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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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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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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America's greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.
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... 'the Continent's traditional social contract' - perhaps its major contribution to contemporary civilization - 'is obsolete' and must be dismantled.
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This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.
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Should you revisit usStay a little longerAnd get to know the place...On local life we trustThe resident witnessNot the royal tourist.
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I'm very excited. The 12-year-old me is kicking myself.
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While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
