Charles Williams Quotes
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
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What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
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There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.
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I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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You're on your own in college, but you get sheltered a little bit more with the coaching staff and everything.
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
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John Spratt did a great job of constituent service. When somebody had a problem, he would jump on it. The reason I ran against him was that he was one way in the district and then when he got to Washington, he voted the opposite.
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How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.
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You have to be logical. You know? If I know that in this hotel room they have food every day, and I'm knocking on the door every day to eat, and they open the door, let me see the party, let me see them throwing salami all over, I mean, just throwing food around, but they're telling me there's no food.
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The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.
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Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
