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Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. ↗


— Garry Trudeau


#belief #college #college students #commencement #into

Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results. ↗


— Wilhelm Ostwald


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Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines. ↗


— Zebulon Pike


#demand #fines #imprisonment #justice #personal

Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources. ↗


— William Trogdon


#come #deriving #free #most #night

Few things would gratify me as much as a rediscovered respect for things belonging to others. Not abusing the property of others (or that of the community) is one of the ways in which we respect others. It is an essential part of being considerate guests, no matter where we are: in an airplane, in a friend's home, in a movie theater, in a doctor's office, in a public library, or in a public square. ↗


— P.M. Forni


#property #respecting-others #home

In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his hip, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford. ↗


— Elizabeth Gaskell


#humor #literature #men #ownership #people

I have decided not to appeal the ruling that took my law license. My accusers, the Board of Supervisors, once again have fired my lawyers, ensuring I cannot properly defend myself or my anti-corruption efforts. ↗


— Andrew Thomas


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There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry. ↗


— Ivo Andric


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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. ↗


— Francis Bacon


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At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality. ↗


— Princess Masako


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