Lysander Spooner Quotes
The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the law, or the justice of the law.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.
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I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.
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By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.
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I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.
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I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.
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Technology is only an enabler, which can help achieve the intention of the person who is using it.
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Napalm came from Harvard. Veritas!
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Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.
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All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.
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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
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The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the law, or the justice of the law.
