William Blackstone Quotes

By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage.

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• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
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• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
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• I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.

  

  Vikas Swarup
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• She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
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• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
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• If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

  

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• I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.

  

  Naomi Campbell
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• Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Long
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• To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • Men
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• I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!

  

  Kabir Bedi
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• For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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• The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
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• In terms of me being a Christian, going to Israel was really cool. Going to the West Bank, Bethlehem, floating in the Dead Sea - that was great for me.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
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• Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

  

  Owen Glendower
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• I owe everything to France.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
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• I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
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• The ultimate test on the way to establishing an ideal civilization encouraging ideal human behavior was to look bravely beyond gender, color, ethnic origin, religious difference, and class distinctions to discover and honor the value of each unique individual.

  

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• Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

  

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• For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children.

  

  Scott Turow
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• You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

  

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• I have been so misused by chaste men with one wife, that I would live with satyrs all my life.

  

  Anna Wickham
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  • Men
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• By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Wife
  • Husband
  • Existence