William Blackstone Quotes
Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.
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This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
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On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
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Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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No one person is an island.
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.
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I threw away the whole of my working history, my photograph albums, diaries and stage clothes. Shoving big, ugly discs on walls is a bit like rubbing people's faces in it, saying 'I am considerably richer than you.' It is completely unnecessary.
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The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.
