Stella Benson Quotes
Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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Most of all, I love unfussy, unpretentious, simple food made with excellent ingredients. If I'm a snob, it's about quality, not cuisine.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
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I make the best eggplant parmigiana. Except maybe my mother. The way she makes it is delicious. If I told you how, I'd have to kill you.
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May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
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Home's the most excellent place of all.
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Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.
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Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.
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I have just learned a delicious French usage. On wedding invitations when they say the mass is at noon they mean one o'clock -when they say at noon precise they mean half after twelve - and when they say at very precisely noon they mean noon.
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I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn't come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.
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Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
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The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.
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By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.
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I think I'm a man that's basically misunderstood.
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Treason is a strong word, but not too strong to characterize the situation in which the Senate is the eager, resourceful, and indefatigable agent of interests as hostile to the American people as any invading army could be.
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In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
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Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen.
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I have to believe in the character to perform it.
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Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.
