Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes
Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
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The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.
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The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It's very technical, the way they play; they keep the ball well, and whenever Spurs have played against Spanish teams in the past, they've always made it difficult for us.
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I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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I was a pretty difficult teenager.
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But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.
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I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
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I've spent more time in hospitals than some fellows ever spend in church.
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Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
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I needed a lot of the good things that church provided. But as I grew older, it became increasingly hard for me to rationalize the importance of church in my life with the beliefs that it required that were at odds with modern science.
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Sunday, I go to church; I take the day off. I rest.
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My father was a very difficult man.
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Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.
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Sophomore records are historically really difficult.
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We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.
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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
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Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.
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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.
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I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.
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Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?
