Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
Quotes to Explore
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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Some people change when they think they're a star or something.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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I would argue that Asean has been instrumental in driving both economic growth and political development, and that there can be no clearer example than its relations with Myanmar.
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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I wasn't taking so many drugs that it was messing up my creative processes. It was a very good period, 1968 - there was a good feeling in the air. It was a very creative period for everyone.
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If you're a songwriter, you have to do homework. You can exist for a while on the inspiration, but at some point, you have to sit down and have the discipline to write - to finish the poem, as they say.
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Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.
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I was in a peacetime army. It was like something out of a Le Carre novel: studying the habits of your enemy. It was very exciting. It's interesting living life as a civilian, then on Friday night you're parachuting into a foreign country.
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One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
