William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Quotes
Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.
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If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?
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Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed.
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Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
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Sosias: The love of wine is a good man's failing. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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I'm a homebody times ten.
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The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.
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I'm very involved in the production of my songs. I know what I like and what I don't like.
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Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.
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For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia.
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I'm the true definition of a workaholic.
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Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?
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The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.
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Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavement, even if it leads nowhere?
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Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys Hughes, filled with gaudy colour, slapstick, puns, fantastic creatures, and the occasional unexpected chill. Hughes' world is a magical one - and his language if the most magical thing of all.
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Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.
