William Blackstone Quotes
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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Stanford's law school application wasn't the standard combination of college transcript, LSAT score, and essays. It required a personal sign-off from the dean of your college: You had to submit a form, completed by the dean, attesting that you weren't a loser.
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I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
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In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
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Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
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I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.
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Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.
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One with the law is a majority.
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I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.
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At the Justice Department, we have no greater obligation than ensuring all people are treated equally under the law, and Americans must know that we will vigorously pursue criminal activity regardless of whether the crime is committed on a street corner or in a corner office.
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Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.
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Our problem is not adopting reforms, which we will do without question. It is not reaching an objective, which we will meet. But it is finding an end to the recession.
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My mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.
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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?
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Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it, the more it gnawed away at who he was.
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No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God
