Exacted Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
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When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses…
— Grover Cleveland
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Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.
— Mark Twain
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[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the…
— Thomas Sprat
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I think everyone makes a mistake at least once in their life. The important thing is what you learn from it. That's why I have…
— Malala Yousafzai
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What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every…
— G. M. Trevelyan
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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the…
— William James
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.
— A. Philip Randolph
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Be kindly and just in your dealings with your men. Never play favorites. Make them feel that justice tempered with mercy may always be counted…
— John A. Lejeune
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Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled...
— Christopher Hitchens
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What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either…
— Oscar Wilde
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Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free labor…
— Germaine Greer
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There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process…
— A. Philip Randolph
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There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity reserved…
— Henry Miller
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He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and…
— Cormac McCarthy
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I was on my back, looking up at Morelli through cobwebs, and my first thought was that the 7-Eleven victim had exacted revenge on me,…
— Janet Evanovich
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I didn't like the way I looked, the way I dressed and moved, what I achieved and what I felt I was worth. But there…
— Bernhard Schlink
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I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any…
— Fanny Kemble
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When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses…
— Grover Cleveland
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And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh:…
— Bible
Who Wrote These Exacted Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 21 Exacted Quotes as follows: