#exclusive

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#events #exclusive #formidable #impediment #knowledge

It can't really happen today the way it did back then and part of that is because I think there's a bit of a competitive scare over at Marvel and DC so they lock guys up with exclusive contracts. ↗

— Todd McFarlane

#because #bit #competitive #contracts #dc

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#also #belief #embrace #exclusively #intentions

Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#benefit #check #currently #exclusively #half

Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#club #convinced #englishman #every #exclusive

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#claim #copies #even #exclusive #paint

Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have been shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#almost #been #conditions #controlled #done

I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#because #believe #constitutes #contract #exclusively

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#credit #exclusively #human #i #i see

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. ↗

— William James

#business #cannot #convenience #does #exclusively