William O. Douglas Quotes
The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
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Love is the one wild card.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
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Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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I was born free.
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I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.
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I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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Doctor, you keep asking me to see your point of view, which is based on ethics. You never see mine, which isn’t.
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I was a French Quarter rat from the moment I could get on a bus by myself and go to the French Quarter. I played music most of my early life and it just seemed that to entertain people was a really good thing to do.
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The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.
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Don’t be afraid,” she said, coldly, “ as far as love may go she may be worthy of you. It must have taken a good deal to overcome her pride. Don’t be afraid, John.
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For the most part, the only contact that most Quebecers have with the world of Islam is through these images of violence, repeated over and over: wars, riots, bombs, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Boston marathon... The reaction is obvious: We'll have none of that here!
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The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
