Lao Tzu Quotes
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
Adam Cohen
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Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.
Abu Bakar Bashir
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We want laws to be applied predictably.
Nancy Gibbs
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I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.
Sammy Sosa
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Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.
Carl Levin
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I don't order laws, I propose them.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.
Karine Vanasse
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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Jacob Bronowski
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
Orson Scott Card
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
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They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.
Hamid Karzai
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In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Dan Castellaneta
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The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Tacitus
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Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
Ferdinand de Saussure
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A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
A. R. Ammons
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Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.
Warren De la Rue
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
Oscar Wilde
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I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House cheering him on, writing editorials. And in The Voice one day I once referred to him as Commander Askeli. And I called in to The Reporter to go over the galleys of a music piece I had written, and the editor whispered to me, `It's not gonna run. You're not gonna run. Max Askeli has fired you because of what you said about him.'
Nat Hentoff
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“Why did this war have to happen at all? Because humanity had to be shown where its godlessness was taking it.”
Wladyslaw Szpilman
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In order to make a change, I have to exist in a traditionally homophobic space such as hip-hop. If I were to just be this queer rapper who only spoke to queer kids... I don't think I could as effectively make a change for another young, black, queer kid growing up in Texas.
Kevin Abstract
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Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
Maajid Nawaz
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The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
Lao Tzu