Samuel Johnson Quotes
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Samuel Johnson
Quotes to Explore
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Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
J. G. Ballard
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I will defend and enforce the laws of our country to ensure that our people and our nation are protected.
Dana Boente
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Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
Patrick Kavanagh
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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. I mean this as a principle of æsthetic, not merely historical, criticism.
T. S. Eliot
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Once someone I was working with said, 'You know, Vanna, some people think about what they're having for lunch tomorrow and you're thinking hundreds of years into the future.'
Vanna Bonta
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What's emerging is a new synthesis of science, spirituality and leadership as different facets of a single way of being.
Betty Sue Flowers
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All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.
Amy Lowell
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Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.
Lester B. Pearson
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I grew up in Philadelphia.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
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Rejoice when other scientists do not believe what you know to be true. It will give you extra time to work on it in peace. When they start claiming that they have discovered it before you, look for a new project.
Efraim Racker
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Samuel Johnson
