Lines Quotes
5107 quotes by 3514 authors
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The English practice of accommodating the rules of commercial law to commercial practice. The line of causation ran from economic need to legal response
— Nathan Rosenberg
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It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry will be able…
— Tony Benn
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Many people are afraid to fail, so they don't try. They may dream, talk, and even plan, but they don't take that critical step of…
— Donald Trump
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People ask me, how is managing in the New Economy different from managing in the Old Economy? Actually, it's a lot the same. It's about…
— Meg Whitman
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I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The bottom line is…
— Harry Chapin
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Global climate change is real. The legislative branch of our government is our last line of defense against pollution which is why I am so…
— Kyra Sedgwick
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A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing our economic system…
— John Holdren
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I think the democratic movement will be repressed for now, only to erupt again somewhere down the line.And more blood will be shed, just like…
— Nien Cheng
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Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century
— Lewis Mumford
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The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal…
— Anton Chekhov
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An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued.
— Irvin S. Cobb
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You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race,…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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So we draw lines around our property, our counties, our cities, our states, our countries. And, boy, do we act as if those lines are…
— David Suzuki
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Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding…
— Mark Twain
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If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle, in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it is, as far…
— C. Everett Koop
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But I also want to give them a pathway so that they can earn citizenship, earn a legal status, start learning English, pay a significant…
— Barack Obama
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The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is a…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Then Arjuma saw in both armies fathers, grandfathers, sons, grandsons; fathers of wives, uncles, masters; brothers companions and friends. . . . When Arjuna thus…
— Juan Mascaro
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What could me more plausible than a line of reasoning which argues that the explanation of the origin of a system was to achieve an…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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