Oliver Ellsworth Quotes
The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.
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I would love to be a role model.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.
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My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable - I'm still working on that! And so I started when I was fifteen, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of being able to focus my crazy teenage energy into something good.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.
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You never know the opportunity you're going to get, and you're never going to know how good anyone can be without the best opportunities, just as it goes with time.
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Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell.
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Each opening bud, and care-perfected seed, Is as a page, where we may read of God.
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The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.
