Benjamin Hoadly Quotes
Whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, it is He who is truly the Law Giver to all intents and purposes, and not the Person who first wrote or spoke them.
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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I'm a very competitive person.
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I'm not a party person.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.
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I don't order laws, I propose them.
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Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Everyone wants me to be this political person... I'm not Malcolm X.
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The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.
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The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
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I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
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Can any sane person say that before something comes on the Net you must screen it? How can there be pre-screening?
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I live for the moment. I'm basically a Buddhist-type person. I'm just here right now, and I don't think about what's going to happen a hundred years from now. I try to concentrate on what's going on right now. But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.
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Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.
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We need to work together to redefine the global image of beauty and continue to push for a more inclusive world.
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Yet I do seriously and on good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying chariot in which a man may sit and give such a motion unto it as shall convey him through the air. And this perhaps might be made large enough to carry divers men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum and commodities for traffic.
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Whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, it is He who is truly the Law Giver to all intents and purposes, and not the Person who first wrote or spoke them.
