Quotes 41 till 60 of 791.
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With stout hearts, and with enthusiasm for the contest, let us go forward to victory.
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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
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"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
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''My country, right or wrong'' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ''My mother, drunk or sober.''
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'Suffering should not make us bitter people,' my mother once said, 'it should make us better comforters.' Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they'll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.
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A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.
Source: Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991) -
A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
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A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
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A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.
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A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.
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A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be a woman. I was never taught what femininity was. I learnt it - or rather I invented it - on my own. I tended not to talk at all, if people were staring at me.
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A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
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A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
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A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.
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A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.
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