William Blackstone Quotes

[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society.

William Blackstone

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• Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.

  

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• Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.

  

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• You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• I have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
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• When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

  

  Flavor Flav
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• I love women more than anything.

  

  Vin Diesel
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• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
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• I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
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• I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.

  

  Daniel Boulud
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• 'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.

  

  Adam Davidson
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• Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.

  

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• The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

  

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• In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.

  

  Sam Trammell
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• To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

  

  Hanna Rosin
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• I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

  

  Gary Allan
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• Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.

  

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• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

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• I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

  

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• The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

  

  Samuel McChord Crothers
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• Mother Teresa's detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans' destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement.

  

  Bharati Mukherjee
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• I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack is a blow in favour and not a blow against civil liberties.

  

  John Howard
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• To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• [Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Law
  • Taken
  • Facts