Herbert Spencer Quotes
No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.
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You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
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Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.
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Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?
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I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.
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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
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Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress.
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If it's lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one to kill wolves or dogs that are being sicked on little black babies. In fact, it's constitutional. Article Number Two of the constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to own a rifle or a shot gun.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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But you have to trust your instincts. Because you're not going to try it 20 different ways during rehearsal. You'll try it two or three different ways, maybe, but then you've got five other scenes you're shooting that day. You've got to keep going.
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I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
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As you will come to see, much is governed by the Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rules.
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I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.
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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
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Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played with.
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It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow shot towards a target first had to cover half the distance, and then half the remainder, and then half the remainder after that, and so on ad infinitum, the result was, as I will now demonstrate, that though an arrow is always approaching its target, it never quite gets there, and Saint Sebastian died of fright.
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The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
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Follow your instincts, and handle all with respect and diplomacy.
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O charitable philosopher, I beg you to help me. My mind is weak but my soul is strong. Kindle that soul, and the sacred fire shall never be extinguished.
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There was a lot of stones what the builders refused. I think I was one of the stones what many builders did refuse.
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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere.
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No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
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No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.
