Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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There is no evidence to show that prohibition has ever had its intended impact. Of course, just as banning beef has reduced beef consumption, banning alcohol will lead to reduced alcohol consumption. But, there appears to be little or no correlation between, say, domestic violence or household impoverishment and prohibition.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
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For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way in this country. So there is a mass movement of people who identify themselves through their food preferences or even just that they prioritize food - that's where we get this idea of being a foodie.
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Thus in a pageant-show a plot is made;And peace itself is war in masquerade.
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It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group.
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We sometimes speak of stubborn facts. Nonsense! A fact is a mere babe when compared with a stubborn theory.
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Without a policy restricting immigration, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to fight against communalism and the rise of ways of life at odds with laicite - France's distinctive form of secularism - and other laws and values of the French Republic.
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I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.
