Learned Hand Quotes
I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
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Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
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Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
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I think you're attracted to things that are different from yourself in a character because it's more interesting, and you get to play out a fantasy version of yourself.
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I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
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The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
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I'd always felt from as far back as I can remember that where the issue of marriage is concerned, individuals should have the opportunity to marry and not be discriminated against.
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Sometimes, I don't like making emotions your career; something about it is kind of gross. But, at the same time, I want to move people the same way the songs make me feel.
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Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.
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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
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Infosys was going to be a different type of company. It was going to be very ethically run, meritocratic, quality-conscious, transparent. People didn't confuse the personal with the corporate.
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It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.
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Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
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Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.
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I wouldn't eat a chicken if it dropped dead in front of me holding up a sign that said, Eat Me.
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I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, 'I wish more people saw that' - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.
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I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.
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The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.
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I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
