Rufus Choate Quotes

#1. Holding onto negativity only hurts you, let it go

L.J. Vanier

#2. We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.

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#3. Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.

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#4. A book is the only immortality

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#5. There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.

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#6. Its Constitution
the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

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#7. I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

#8. I spend a lot on shoes, but my favourite shoes I've had for 16 years: a pair of black Michel Perry ankle boots with gold lining.

Anna Mouglalis

#9. Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

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#10. If you don't believe in what you are saying, there is no point in your saying it. You might as well call it a day and go bowling.

Anne Lamott

#11. I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.

Amitav Ghosh

#12. The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

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#13. We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

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#14. You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.

Danny Kaye

#15. Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

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#16. Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.

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#17. I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.

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#18. If this place were closer to Terra there'd be empty beer cans and plastic plates strewn around. The trees would be gone. There'd be old jet motors in the water. The beaches would stink to high heaven. Terran Development would have a couple of million little plastic houses set up everywhere.

Philip K. Dick

#19. If you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you have lost your job and livelihood, gone through a divorce that came out of the blue, know that God is not punishing you. He is not waiting for you to do something.

Tullian Tchividjian

#20. The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

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#21. I love vintage shopping, but my secret spot for great tees and casual stuff is Trico Field. They have the cutest kids' clothes, too!

Stacey Bendet

#22. Knowledge is power as well as fame.

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#23. No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

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#24. Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.

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#25. You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.

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#26. In the darkness of a thousand
withered souls, it was Er Lang's hand that I
sought, and his voice that I longed to hear. Perhaps
it is selfish of me, but an uncertain future
with him, in all its laughter and quarrels, is better
than being left behind.

Yangsze Choo

#27. Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

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#28. Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.

Dwight D. Eisenhower