"When I used to teach civil procedure as……" — Anne-Marie Slaughter
"When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.' The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force."
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Anne-Marie Slaughter
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19 Quotes by Anne-Marie Slaughter
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Our approach [to global security] has changed by the way we've elevated development. The biggest lesson is to recognize global…
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In Sarajevo and in Syria, these are societies - in Bosnia, in Serbia, in Kosovo, in Syria - where ethnicities…
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What I'm suggesting is we are going to look back, and we're going to see what happened in Syria, and…
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Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women ……
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In the end, no matter how much you love your work, your work will not love you back.
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I’d been part, albeit unwillingly, of making millions of women feel that they are to blame if they cannot manage…
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I see much less of an ambition gap and much more of a workplace and society that isn't allowing us…
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Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.
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If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.
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Believe it or not, we will actually be better and happier workers if we are allowed to be better parents.…
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Over my lifetime, women have demonstrated repeatedly that they can do anything that men can do, while still managing traditional…
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Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates…
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More Battle Quotes
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
— Chinua Achebe
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is…
— James A. Baldwin
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It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain…
— Gerry Adams
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Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking…
— Drew Barrymore
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You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally…
— Scott Adams
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Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam,…
— Annie Besant
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
— Ambrose Bierce
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir…
— Theodore Bikel
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness,…
— Buffalo Bill
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This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world…
— Tony Blair
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a…
— Erma Bombeck
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