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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Look hard for ways to make little moves against destructiveness.
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I don't read the papers or watch TV.
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If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.
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I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract.
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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.
