Patrick Leahy Quotes
The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I always like a good song: puts me in a good mood.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.
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Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook.
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The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
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I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.
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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
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We will not lose this election for lack of money.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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It's definitely a relief that it's over. It's been a long season for us, with ups and downs. But we're going to put it behind us now and we've got to try and be a better team.
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One of Britain's big problems throughout history has been that we lust after consumer goods from elsewhere, but our friends overseas have been less enthusiastic about buying things we produce.
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The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
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No-one contests the need to address the high cost of and the corresponding difficulty of having access to cross-border clearing and settlement in the EU. We have not yet reached any definitive view on the precise measures we would propose to remedy this situation. It is clear, though, that the present system is untenable. Changes are going to have to be made. We believe the industry recognizes this as well and we would encourage them to be a part of the solution and not the problem." ()
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.