George William Russell Quotes
There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.
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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
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I've been blessed with a wonderful husband, two caring daughters and sons-in-law, and four really special grandchildren. They have each enhanced my life.
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School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.
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Conservatism by its very nature is compassionate.
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Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
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At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never.
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It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.
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The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.
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Moving from Rome to Brussels was hard.
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There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.
