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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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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Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.
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After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
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I don't know what cancer did to me but I put on probably 10 pounds of muscle and got a lot stronger in the weight room and during our dry-land stuff.
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No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.
