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LESLIE FIEDLER Thai and Indian Brahmin priests will jointly conduct the rituals.
PREECHA KANTIYA Sure, our legal system has its flaws, but it is the best legal system in the world.
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE The state guarantees the freedom of its citizens to practice their religion and also guarantees that...
ANDI MALLARANGENG The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
HENRY MILLER My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.
DAVID EAGLEMAN The Florida legislature is to be commended for taking this important step towards fixing our broken ...
SLADE O'BRIEN This survey is a clear message to the citizens of California that our out-of-control legal system is...
DAVID HOUSTON Those things: Mystery, Fate, and Enchantment... they are things that young people offer us as soon a...
ROMAN PAYNE The director is simply the audience. . . . His job is to preside over accidents.
ORSON WELLES Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right ...
THOMAS CARPER By the last decades of the 21st century, church worship will still take the form of reading passages...
FRANK TIPLER Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld ...
FELIPE VI OF SPAIN Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound exte...
PAUL THEROUX Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is sol...
A. J. LIEBLING Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or a...
RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI There is mounting anger in Western business circles over the lack of radical liberal reforms and the...
ALEXANDER RAHR We must overhaul our land laws, taxes and information system. Some 90 per cent of land in India is s...
AZIM PREMJI We must overhaul our land laws, taxes and information system. Some 90 per cent of land in India is s...
AZIM PREMJI A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
TEA OBREHT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Try to read or send a love note everyday. Love is the most powerful force there is in this world and...
JK ZANY From that first step we take as a child we continue to walk everyday of our lives. The day we stop w...
JONATHAN MICHALIK Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only ...
GRACE NAPOLITANO We are encouraged that the legal system is working to protect the community.
JEFFREY HERMAN Requesting clemency is something that accords with the Australian government's responsibility to pro...
DESRA PERCAYA We lost an extraordinary judge, an extraordinary member of the Supreme Court, someone who has had a ...
TOM DASCHLE For a couple more days she (Miller) remains under a contempt-of-court order, and is not yet clear of...
BILL KELLER Somehow, having a deer preside over the ceremony of a werewolf and a girl seems oddly appropriate.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER If you go to the museum in Sacramento today there are three people they recognize as founders of Cal...
MAYOR AMABILE Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, ver...
CHARLES DICKENS I am delighted to bring my expertise in service excellence not only to Henry Ford West Bloomfield, b...
GERARD VAN GRINSVEN The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would ...
COLM TOIBIN Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that ...
SIRI HUSTVEDT In the Christian context, we do not mean by a "mystery" merely that which is baffling and mysterious...
KALLISTOS WARE The Iron Dome system is a proven way for Israel to defend its citizens from hostile threats and will...
ROB PORTMAN Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political...
GEORGE PAPANDREOU We are duty bound to protect our judges' integrity and the legal system,
LOUIS BUTLER We have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have...
MARCO RUBIO At its core, the legal question is how to balance parents' basic and comprehensive authority over ch...
CAROL SANGER The legal system in Turkey works. The judiciary has put in the law the ways to compensate its intern...
CEMIL CICEK In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn ...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.
LINDSEY GRAHAM We have a very long legal system with the European Union, and we're English speaking.
ENDA KENNY However, consumers are demanding a more secure, functional operating system. And Microsoft has devel...
TOM BROOKES The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but wh...
LEE KUAN YEW No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.
SYDNEY POLLACK Companies will often use the legal system to scare people away from attacking them. But we all shoul...
LAWRENCE LESSIG Another of Mack’s patients says that the aliens have been taking eggs from her since she was sexua...
CARL SAGAN The European Union needs to reinvent its security system. It needs to break the stovepipes that prev...
DAVID IGNATIUS If we're not willing to take care of this precious commodity, then who are we, why are we and what a...
LARRY STILLMAN Let's create a legal system that can work.
SAM BROWNBACK Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favo...
DAVID SUZUKI The women of South Dakota will still be able to access safe and legal abortion as this case works it...
KATE LOOBY I think what we need to do is to have an immigration system where legal immigration is easier.
BILL FLORES Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the pat...
ELIZA FARNHAM Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the pat...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister.
TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma...
TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th...
TRISHA LEAVER We're trying to take a deadly, chaotic and disorderly system and turn it into a safe, legal and orde...
DOUG RIVLIN I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finis...
ANTONIA FRASER I'm not sure where we're going to go from here. We've already spent well over $100,000. ... The lega...
JOAN SKAALAND We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solve...
M. SCOTT PECK We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how...
MARCO RUBIO I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British E...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL A petty concern with mere evidence is an antiquated and bourgeois feature of the captalist legal sys...
ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA The Michigan Coalition of Black Farmers identified that this neighborhood needed a system for supply...
MIKE SCORE Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873 A knowledge of the Bi...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS We have become a shroud of delusion over reality. It is 'time' to accept that time is a created thin...
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ We need a system set up on a national basis where employers can check to see if someone is a legal w...
GARY RODEN The culture of the Epic Fail, in its rituals of comic sacrifice, is a culture of sublimated predatio...
MARK O'CONNELL Part of the focus is educating people about the day-to-day work we do at Legal Aid. ... We've raised...
ADRIENNE WORTHY I will never let you know how much you hurt me
No, I will never tell you
The lasts few m...
HENRY ROLLINS A truly moral health care system should start out by covering all of its citizens with basic health ...
RICHARD LAMM It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal ...
SAMORA MACHEL China will strengthen its clampdown on financial crimes including beefing up supervising and oversig...
LIU MINGKANG Most stuff they teach us in school we will never need in life, that's why over the breaks its forgot...
LIL TREYCO He hopes for civil society, the legal system, and a good future.
ANTON DREL It is unreasonable for the common people to expect a known corrupt legal system to protect them.
STEVEN MAGEE I have a responsibility to make sure my citizens are protected. That goes beyond the legal mandate,
RICK BAKER The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly.
JANET RENO I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just f...
ANTONIA FRASER In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system,
non-citizens face an executiv...
WILLIAM SAFIRE Make rituals of the important elements of your work. It ensures that they get done without much cons...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN To be fully alive is to walk in the shadow of death. In making love like this, like animals in the w...
CHLOE THURLOW We were soft. It's baffling.
SCOTT SKILES I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death pe...
NEIL GAIMAN I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, t...
GARRY WILLS It is not the responsibility of the government or the legal system to protect a citizen from himself
CASEY PERCELL And that’s the terrible myth of organized society. That everything that’s done through the estab...
WILLIAM M. KUNSTLER Early youth is a baffling time.
BRUCE CATTON It gives them a greater understanding of the legal system.
JUDY THOMPSON It's all about making sure those in power are responsive to everyday citizens. We help make sure peo...
FORREST CARR Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its ci...
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to ...
DEBORAH NORVILLE creation and maintenance of a court system that allows citizens to adjudicate disputes is a fundamen...
JAMES SENSENBRENNER I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system.
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HENRY MILLER Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
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HENRY MILLER The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
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HENRY MILLER Actors die so loud.
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HENRY MILLER What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.
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HENRY MILLER If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
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HENRY MILLER Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
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HENRY MILLER Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
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HENRY MILLER Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
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HENRY MILLER An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
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HENRY MILLER Even if I could write the book I want to write nobody would take it - I know my compatriots only too...
HENRY MILLER Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so r...
HENRY MILLER The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.
HENRY MILLER [...] I know how to inflame a cunt. I shoot hot bolts into you, Tania. I make your ovaries incandesc...
HENRY MILLER Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we wo...
HENRY MILLER Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines ...
HENRY MILLER Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.
HENRY MILLER I have found God, but he is insufficient.
HENRY MILLER If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want t...
HENRY MILLER I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am...
HENRY MILLER Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was mean...
HENRY MILLER Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living ...
HENRY MILLER In the days to come, when it will seem as if I were entombed, when the very firmament threatens to c...
HENRY MILLER I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to...
HENRY MILLER You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet n...
HENRY MILLER الكتابة بخط اليد على الجدار ليست غامضة ولا مهددة لمن يس...
HENRY MILLER el mundo nunca deja morir de hambre a una mujer guapa.
HENRY MILLER Es extraño. Había llegado a resignarme tanto a aquella vida sin ella y, sin embargo, si pensaba en...
HENRY MILLER Hay algo perverso en las mujeres... en el fondo son todas masoquistas.
HENRY MILLER There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy
HENRY MILLER We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
HENRY MILLER I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, ...
HENRY MILLER Sin, guilt, neurosis /they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
HENRY MILLER The real leader has no need to lead he is content to point the way
HENRY MILLER Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring...
HENRY MILLER One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifli...
HENRY MILLER