James F. Cooper Quotes
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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I think that, as athletes, sometimes we have the opportunities to make an impact. When it's authentic, I think there's room to share your opinion in an appropriate way.
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.
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Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.
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I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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I'm attracted to men who just love what they do, have confidence in what they do and have potential to be on their own if they need to be.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.
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Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.
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Girls get competitive, as though there's only one spot in the world for everything _ but that's not true. We need to stick together and see there's more to life than pleasing men. It's important not to cut yourself off from female friendships. I think sometimes girls get scared of other girls, but you need each other.
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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
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A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
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Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
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Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican.
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Justice is merely incidental to law and order.
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In law school, I never understood antitrust law. I later found out, in reading the writings of those who now do understand it, that I should not have understood it because it did not make any sense then.
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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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I have never in my life let a man disrespect me, verbally or physically, and that will never change. I feel very strongly about this because it's something my mother instilled in me and that I have instilled in my daughters.
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
