“ I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution. ”
- Ulysses S. Grant- Copy
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“ Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. ”
- Howard Hughes- Copy
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“ The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. ”
- Edward Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl. ”
- Nellie McClung- Copy
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“ Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere. ”
- Morihei Ueshiba- Copy
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“ We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ It can go on and on, or someone must write 'The End' to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must.(Fords pardon of Richard Nixon for Watergate). ”
- Gerald Ford- Copy
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“ All the officers, soldiers and security personnel are asked not to abide by these decisions and to consider them null and void. ”
- Mahmoud Abbas- Copy
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“ The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
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“ Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation. ”
- Belva Lockwood- Copy
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“ While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith. ”
- Ethan Allen- Copy
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“ Those who invalidate reason, ought seriously to consider, whether they argue against reason, with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principle, that they are laboring to dethrone; but if they argue without reason, (which, in order to be consistent with themselves, they must do,) they are out of the reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument. ”
- Ethan Allen- Copy
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“ For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions — largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
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“ Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 That all possible kinds of mortification, if they were void of the love of God, could not efface a single sin.. That we ought, without anxiety, to expect the pardon of our sins from the blood of Jesus Christ, only endeavoring to love Him with all our hearts… ”
- Brother Lawrence- Copy
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“ The proponents of estate tax repeal are fond of calling it the 'death tax'. It's not a death tax, it's a Rich Kids' tax. The estate tax is one of our time-tested and best tools in preventing the aristocracy of an 'Old Europe' from establishing itself on our shores. ”
- Bill Foster- Copy
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“ PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation and lived under conditions not easily conceived. Melsius believed them to have inhabited "the Void" and to have been something intermediate between fishes and birds… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of the void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley- Copy
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“ Because of the courage of Discovery's crew, and the commitment of everyone at NASA and the entire space community, our generation has an opportunity to go farther into space and further into the void, to do the impossible and answer the unsolvable,..… ”
- Tom Delay- Copy
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“ Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent. ”
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau- Copy
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“ Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it. ”
- Arthur Ashe- Copy
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