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government firsts students
At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it. Calvin Coolidge
government years long
[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate for long years to come. Their steady habits [will] exclude the advances of information, and they [will] seem exactly where they [have always been]. And there [the] clergy will always keep them if they can. [They] will follow the bark of liberty only by the help of a tow-rope. Thomas Jefferson
government
That government that governs least governs best.
government newspapers
I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.
government citizens function
To draw around the whole nation the strength of the General Government as a barrier against foreign foes... is [one of the] functions of the General Government on which [our citizens] have a right to call.
government occupation becoming
Had not a conviction of the danger to which an unlimited occupation of the executive chair would expose the republican Constitution of our Government, made it conscientiously a duty to retire when I did, the fear of becoming a dotard and of being insensible of it, would of itself have resisted all solicitations to remain.
government imperfection comparison
With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist.
government law democracy
Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.
government benefits bears
Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.
doe investing lines
If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy. George Soros
doe world decent
Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does. George Orwell
doe bed helping
Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
doe
He who obeys, does not listen to himself! Friedrich Nietzsche
doe opinion originality
Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original. Franz Grillparzer
doe murder violation
What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practitioners? – A violation bordering on death, bordering on murder? Georges Bataille
doe looks
Vee scowled at him. She is famous for that scowl. It's a look that does everything but audibly hiss. Becca Fitzpatrick
doe different ratios
How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.] Horace
doe littles slave
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
done want theory
I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I also want it done well. Linus Torvalds
done university has-beens
It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often. Lincoln Steffens
done experts irritated
Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me. Leo Szilard
done should ought
Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done? Leo Tolstoy
done athens leniency
He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life. Jostein Gaarder
done
I love mockumentaries. When they're done right, they're really good. Sean William Scott
done blind my-favorite
Ive done a lot of movies, but my favorite was Blind Faith. Courtney B. Vance
done world salary
What the hell have Greenpeace and WWF done? They are paid very good salaries and they float around the world saying, 'We are helping the world,' but they haven't. David Bellamy
done decided
I'm going to be done when I've decided that I'm done. David Ortiz