Quotes 1741 till 1760 of 2262.
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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.
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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.
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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
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The people follow what the media say. So if you said that Bruno Dumont is fantastic, it follows that more people would go to see my films. I have no wish to remain on the sidelines. I have no wish to make films that are only seen by bohemians in London and Paris.
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The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted.
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The place where I had so much success as a driver would be where I had my first win as a team owner.
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The players often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio -
The plum tree in the yard's so small
It's hardly like a tree at all.
Yet there it is, railed round
To keep it safe and sound. The poor thing can't grow any more
Though if it could it would for sure.
There's nothing to be done
It gets too little sun.Poems, 1913-1956 The Plum Tree [Der Pfaumenbaum] (1934) from The Sv -
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
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The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.
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The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
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The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get the job.
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The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.
We moeten allemaal feminist zijn (2014) -
The progress of the world is the history of men who would not permit defeat to speak the final word.
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The proposed ban on incitement to religious hatred makes no sense unless it involves a ban on the Koran itself; and that would be pretty absurd, when you consider that the Bill's intention is to fight Islamophobia.
Daily Telegraph 21 July 2005 -
The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.'
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The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.
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The question of common sense is ''what is it good for?'' A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
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The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'
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