Archibald Cox Quotes

I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.

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• I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

  

  Og Mandino
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• The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Beautiful
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• To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.

  

  Jack Reed
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  • Leader
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• You can't just let nature run wild.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Nature
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• I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
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• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
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• You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Real
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• I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Country
  • Help
  • Position

• The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Voice
  • Random

• I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
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• Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Law
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  • Play

• Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Beautiful
  • Hair
  • Brunette

• I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Trying
  • Leader
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• I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
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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.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • Me
  • Military

• You can cage the singer but not the song.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Song
  • You
  • Singer

• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• We all need a story. It just turns out that the story we have been told for years - that people are naturally and primarily competitive and self-interested and that life is best shaped around that bleak fact - is bunkum.

  

  Ed Mayo
  • Story
  • Competitive
  • Self-interested

• Bochy is my guy. He raised me in the game; I was 20-years-old and as green as any grapes as you've ever seen on a vine. He took care of me, taught me how to be a professional, and taught me how to get my work done.

  

  Jake Peavy
  • Work
  • Done
  • Guy

• If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Book
  • Author
  • Scripture

• The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Home
  • Democracy
  • Without

• A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Home
  • Kids

• I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.

  

  Archibald Cox
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