"In the law, rights are islands of empowerment.……" — Patricia J. Williams

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• Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and… — Karen Armstrong
• Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to… — Mary Kay Ash
• A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States,… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
• Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important… — Melissa Bean
• Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the… — Ezra Taft Benson
• Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting. — Diane Abbott
• Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate… — Ben Bernanke
• The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round… — Wendell Berry
• Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide… — David Boies
• The central problem of novel-writing is causality. — Jorge Luis Borges
• I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At… — Geraldine Brooks
• It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world… — James Buchan

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