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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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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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.
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Fiddler is keenly aware that justice and law don't necessarily equate.
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There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe.... The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.
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London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool.
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You, the sons and daughters, the future of Turkiye, even under such circumstances and conditions, your duty is to save the Turkish independence and the Republic, you will find the power you need in the noble blood in your veins.
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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.
