William O. Douglas Quotes
The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
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As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
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I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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For years I've been seeing my young brothers wearing Scarface T-shirts, John Gotti T-shirts, Rick James T-shirts. We don't have any icons or idols to look up to, just rappers and professional athletes.
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Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.
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I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.
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I'd probably get a much quicker and better result if I went to a really great guitar player for a certain style of guitar that I have a problem doing. But there is a challenge in figuring out if I can do that myself.
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Money is the harvest of our production and service. We in turn use it to obtain the production and service of others.
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No compact among men... can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.
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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.
