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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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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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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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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Thus they shall not miss this particular branch of the many branches of the Law and will have no need to roam and ramble about in other books in search of information on matters set forth in this treatise.
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…I also discovered Larry's First Law of Language Redesign: Everyone wants the colon.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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I've chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. When the Supreme Court makes a decision, no matter how strongly one disagrees with it, one faces a choice - are we, in John Adams' phrase, a nation of laws, or is it a contest made on raw power?
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I'm looking for a Justice who appreciates the awesome responsibility that she will be given, if confirmed. A Justice who understands the gravity of the office and who respects the very different roles that the Constitution provides for each of the three branches of government.
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
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One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.
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After the end of the year election and the set up of the second National Economic Development Advisory Conference, I shall start to improve the economy.
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There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.
