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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
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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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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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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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Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before you. That's consistent with the punk rock ethos that suggests that you should not take what people say at face value.
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Sometimes the only way you could look at a person, and love them exactly the way you did before is to look at them with Brand New Eyes.
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I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.
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All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.
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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
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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.
