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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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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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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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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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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My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.
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Whether or not I would be able to be an actor without the music I'm not sure, but I feel pretty lucky to do it.
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The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.
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time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
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I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial, incident, which may operate upon this intolerable agitation of soul. I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect-in terror. In this unnerved-in this pitiable condition-I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.
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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
