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carpe-diem perfection genius
Arthur Koestler The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
carpe-diem bombs window
Arthur Miller The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.
carpe-diem looks situation
Brian Tracy Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.
carpe-diem should-have should
Alan Cumming You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.
carpe-diem pact carpe
Edmund Burke History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
carpe-diem men lazy
Aristotle The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
carpe-diem dare carpe
Albert Schweitzer There is so much coldness because we do not dare to be as cordial as we are.
carpe-diem history-repeats-itself repeating-history
Clarence Darrow History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
law knowing shy
Charles Dickens Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.
law justice water
Charles Caleb Colton In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.
law land tree
Charles Caleb Colton The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.
law firsts revolution
Charles Caleb Colton If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.
law genius talent
Charles Caleb Colton With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
law idiot ass
Charles Dickens The law is an ass, an idiot.
law equity appearing
Charles Dickens Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B.
law lawyer mere
Charles Dickens But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.
law idiot ass
Charles Dickens If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.
may oppression begets
Charles Dickens Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
may invention condensation
Charles Caleb Colton Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
may maintaining conquer
Charles Caleb Colton Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.
may modern poet
Charles Caleb Colton Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.
may finals tomorrow
Charles Spurgeon To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning.
may certain made
Charles Spurgeon We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.
may forget ifs
Alan Watts If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.
may conversation used
Alan Moore While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.
may mood used
Alan Bennett It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.