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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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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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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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'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
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I am not a sentimental person.
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But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.
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I'm a sexual person, and that's reflected in my clothes and my advertisements.
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Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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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.
