Solon Quotes
Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
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Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.
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I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.
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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.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the U.S. economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women.
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In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
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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.
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Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.
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Whether we eat, sleep, work, play, whatever we do life contains dissatisfaction, pain. If we enjoy pleasure, we are afraid to lose it; we strive for more and more pleasure or try to contain it. If we suffer pain we want to escape it. We experience dissatisfaction all the time. All activities contain dissatisfaction or pain, continuously.
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Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.
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Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.
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To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.
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It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.
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Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.
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The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.
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I was taken in the middle of the river as I was crossing at a shallow place to make my escape.
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Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to escape. Civilization might be defined indeed as the steps in his escape.
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Rather than an excess of firearms there's a shortage of faith and family that has a lot more to do with what happened out in Littleton. Let's face it, our public square is more hostile to religion than it is to Marilyn Manson.
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Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.
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Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
