Jonathan Swift Quotes
"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.
Jonathan Swift
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I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad.
Patrick Lencioni
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I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.
Ralph Boston
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
Kate Middleton
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You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.
Barack Obama
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He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
Edgar Fiedler
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We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to talk of the political interests committed to our charge.
Fisher Ames
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Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people's interests first.
Bob Burg
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"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.
Jonathan Swift
