Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.
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School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.
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When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'
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As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.
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Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
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Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.
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In the first two years, when I had a strong majority in the House and the Senate, we were as productive as any administration has been since the '60s. I mean, we got a lot done.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.
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Even if the criticism is not always perfectly informed and in some cases I would deem unfair, just the noise, attention, fuss probably keeps powerful officials or agencies on their toes. And they should be on their toes when it comes to the use of deadly force.
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There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
