Cesare Beccaria (Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria) Quotes
Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.
Cesare Beccaria
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When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?
Aaron Sorkin
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I had an apartment on Long Beach Blvd and San Vicente in Long Beach, California. That was the apartment I done 'Regulate' in. I had all my equipment set up in the bedroom, a vocal booth in the bathroom and in the closet, and that's where we created it. I had an MPC 60, a Numark mixer, and a Technics 1200, and a ton of records.
Warren G
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I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
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I've heard that we come on earth in pairs, get separated only to meet once again through marriage. So whoever is there on this earth for me will eventually get paired with me. Till then, I'll enjoy my singlehood.
Rani Mukerji
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I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
Fidel Castro
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
Barbara Bush
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Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay at home and watch TV and do something else. Move into the woods and live with the trees.
Daniel Espinosa
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Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.
Randy Schekman
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I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
Rachel Zoe
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A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'
Ted Williams
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All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.
Chuck Berry
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I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
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In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.
Andreas Gursky
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I bet she woke up with her hair looking like something out of a Pantene commercial while little bluebirds circled around her head, and raccoons brought her breakfast or something.
Rachel Hawkins
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What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.
Auguste Renoir
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No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life. (Nick, page 156)
Rachel Cohn
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We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all... the more you understand, the more you will realize your own responsibility.
Chogyam Trungpa
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
Bill Gates
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Inside him, twenty years dissolved and mixed into one complex, swirling whole. Everything that had accumulated over the years-- all he had seen, all the words he has spoken, all the values he had held-- all of it coalesced into one solid, thick pillar in his heart, the core of which was spinning like a potter's wheel. Wordlessly, Tengo observed the scene, as if watching the destruction and rebirth of a planet.
Haruki Murakami
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Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
William Hazlitt
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
Lane Garrison
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Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.
Cesare Beccaria