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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.


Adlai E. Stevenson


#act #also #circumstances #intelligently #man

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.


Ezra Stiles


#civil #civil government #equity #founded #government

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.


Jonathan Swift


#fortune #happy #merit #miserable #only

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.


Anatole France


#events #fears #future #hopes #man

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.


Johann Kaspar Lavater


#bold #both #conquers #difficulties #diminishes

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.


William Hazlitt


#prudence #talking #vanity #vanity

Why not? If you're not going to let me see you naked, we might as well be girlfriends." "You're a twisted little man." "Come on, Stretch, share with the class." "No!" I laughed. "Prude." "Perv." "Schoolmarm." "Some other word that essentially means perv.


Molly Harper


#funny #jane-jameson #molly-harper #nice-girls-don-t-have-fangs #perv

How did Kirchmann understand the worthlessness of jurisprudence ? The answer lies in the aphorism: "Three revisions by the legislator and whole libraries became wastepaper." With a sharp alteration this answer became a slogan:"A stroke of the legislator's pen and whole libraries became wastepaper." Another aphorism in the same vein made the point even more brusquely and less politely: "Positive law turns the jurist into a worm in rotten wood." Kirchmann meant that jurisprudence could never catch up with legislation. Thus our predicament becomes immediately obvious. What remains of a science reduced to annotating and interpreting constantly changing regulations issued by state agencies presumed to be in the best position to know and articulate their true intent?


Carl Schmitt


#change

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.


Clara Barton


#economy #fail #fortune #hand #life

I'm certainly not a prude.


Kim Cattrall


#i #prude






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