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My party is committed to a federation.
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this defendant committed the same crime over and over and over again.
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What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.
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He has committed the crime who profits by it.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
He has committed the crime who profits by it.
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The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.
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What we have is an obligation to investigate whether a crime has been committed,
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It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of...
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We have serious work to do. There is a lot of change to do.
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Some of that money may well have been from overseas sources.
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Our party believes in diversity, not uniformity.
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The party at its best has always been a modern party.
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I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
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I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
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There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.
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Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.
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I want to get ready.
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Enjoy what you have.
Forget what you haven't.
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It'll not kill you.
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The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
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Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
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We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
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Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
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To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
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For knowledge, too, is itself a power. [Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
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Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
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States are great engines moving slowly.
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All beliefs are bald ideas.
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Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
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Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
DICK FRANCIS
Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.
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Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must...
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The essence of a man is found in his faults.
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A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
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Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
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Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, a...
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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
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There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy...
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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
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Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f...
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An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
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No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say ma...
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Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
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Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be de...
FRANCIS BACON
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom driv...
FRANCIS BACON
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACON
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is mor...
BRENDAN FRANCIS
The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
FRANCIS QUARLES
If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge ...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
FRANCIS BACON
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the...
FRANCIS BACON
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
FRANCIS QUARLES
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
FRANCIS PICABIA
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
FRANCIS CRAWFORD
Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatr...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
FRANCIS PICABIA
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself,...
FRANCIS QUARLES
The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Wickedness is its own punishment.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.
FRANCIS QUARLES
My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
FRANCIS QUARLES
The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
FRANCIS QUARLES
He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER