Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.
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Whereas HIV only in recent decades became infectious for humans, high risk papillomavirus types have in all likelihood been with us for millions of years, accompanying the human race since the early days of our evolution.
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Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
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During my first round of law school applications, I didn't even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford - the mystical 'top three' schools. I didn't think I had a chance at those places. More important, I didn't think it mattered; all lawyers get good jobs, I assumed.
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To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.
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There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
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I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.
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I do body conditioning, spinning and yoga. On the treadmill, I'll do intervals of running flat and then on incline. I'll do that for an hour.
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I've always come into a show when the show was already up and running.
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Compared to running apps on a smartphone or, more aptly, an iPad, the app experience on the Samsung Chromebook Plus is distinctly subpar.
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
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I think we're always going to be based in New York. So I would say 50 percent New York and the other 50 percent around the world.
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The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
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In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.
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Our visits to the United States have brought huge benefits by helping attract foreign direct investment on a scale not previously seen in the north of Ireland.
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The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
