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Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned prisoner… — Harry A. Blackmun
The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or… — Saint Augustine
What we also have to recognize is that the deficit levels that I'm inheriting, over a trillion dollars, coming out of last year, that that… — Barack Obama
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously… — Jean de la Bruyere
...the disqualification is unjust, I understand his reaction. You must understand the riders at certain moments (like climbing an 18% hill) they are stressed and… — Gilberto Simoni
Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding. — Stephen Covey
I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And let the truth be your delight...Proclaim it..., but with a certain congeniality. — St. Catherine of Siena
I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in… — George Orwell
Even as a young man, Vito Corleone became known as a "man of reasonableness." He never uttered a threat. He always used logic that proved… — Mario Puzo
The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was… — Fernand Braudel
This is common sense. This is nature, and what we're trying to do is defy nature because a certain group of people want to be… — Rick Santorum
The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal. — Earl Nightingale
There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers. — Henry Hazlitt
I've never believed protectionism of that kind will lead us anywhere. I think you can have certain specific rules for engaging with India.. for example,… — Ratan Tata
We must retool our nation to prepare for the challenge we already face to maintain our position in the global economy. And this much is… — John F. Kerry
You have a responsibility to your work, to your choices. Once you get to a certain level of quality and commitment, you don't want to… — Jamie Foxx
To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more… — Karl Popper

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