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 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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I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand... Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her which positively repels me... What an unattractive person La Sand is... Is she really a woman? I'm inclined to doubt it.
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We drive so far to get away. Never look back. We don’t care about nothin’ else. A sweet escape. Gotta break free like a shooting star. Let the skyline guide us.
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The world is a Bridge, pass over it, but build no houses upon it. He who hopes for a day, may hope for eternity; but the World endures but an hour. Spend it in prayer for the rest is unseen.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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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.
