Quotes 101 till 120 of 249.
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If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.
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If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader.
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If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.
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In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
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In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
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Indeed much of the literature written about black folks in the post-civil rights era emphasized the need for jobs. Material advancement was deemed the pressing agenda. Mental health concerns were not a high priority. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
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Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
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It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.
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It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
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It must recognize and hold up before men the moral character of this corruption of the ballot. Bribery is a sin. It is condemned in the laws of Moses: And thou shalt take no gift; for a gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. These words are as true to-day as when they were written.
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It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
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It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
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It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.
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Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person human. Without writing, we just wouldn't have that kind of access.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, and censure freely who have written well.
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Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.
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