Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes
Human nature is accused of much more selfishness than it really has ; a thousand kindly emotions break in upon and redeem our daily and interested life.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.
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When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.
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My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.
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God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.
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I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.
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As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.
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God will understand, my lord. And if he doesn't, then he is not God and we need not worry.
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Margaret Thatcher's government redistributed money from rich to poor. And that's the nature of a modern western democracy.
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Human nature is accused of much more selfishness than it really has ; a thousand kindly emotions break in upon and redeem our daily and interested life.
