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past cases grievance
If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined. David Horowitz
past events morality
It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events. David Hume
past knavery way
It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work
past words-of-wisdom kind
The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.
past joy mind
...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that, according to the past experience of mankind, friendship is the chief joy of human life and moderation the only source of tranquillity and happiness.
past giving useless
If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.
past ideas giving
To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of ideas, and endows them with particular qualities, according to their particular situations and relations. This instinct, 'tis true, arises from past observation and experience; but can anyone give the ultimate reason, why past experience and observation produces such an effect, any more than why nature alone should produce it?
past experience events
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.
past mirrors faithful
When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the colours which it employs are faint and dull, in comparison of those in which our original perceptions were clothed.
cities america london
I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close. David Hockney
cities able shouting
You will never be able to defend your city while shouting. Audre Lorde
cities oklahoma-city addresses
I'm more focused on the positives of why I'm here. I'll be able to address those things in due time. Right now it's about the Thunder and Oklahoma City. Derek Fisher
cities growth arms
In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down. Denise Levertov
cities president locks
When I become president, all you assholes that ride bikes in the city? Lock and load! You're going down! Denis Leary
cities heaven empires
The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city. Deborah Kerr
cities light car
Cars are all jammed up all along the road and a light turns red and someone honks. In every one of those cars there is a story or a hundred stories. For every light on in al of those huge city buildings there is a story. No one knows what I am about to face and no one knows my story and neither do I right then. Deb Caletti
cities people house
In Riyadh, there's going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabitants of approximately 150,000 people. It's like a city within a city. Al-Waleed bin Talal
cities numbers evil
The fact is, we're looking for a very small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London. Charles Clarke
curiosity leisure example
Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person
curiosity entered longer moment overcame truth
When the moment of truth came, when we entered the city, I was no longer afraid: my curiosity overcame the fear. Daniel Cohen
curiosity misery fast-food
Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity. Augusten Burroughs
curiosity statistics detectives
You see, but you do not observe. Arthur Conan Doyle
curiosity fact great health message regard respond sent strong teachers union whether wonder
My great curiosity is how the union will respond to this. I think the fact finder has sent a very strong message with regard to health insurance. I wonder whether the teachers will see it that way or not.
curiosity looks hearing
I was brought into the curiosity of it because with Sony Pictures Classics, which bought the movie, they look into what the feedback is and base that off of how they release it, and you end up hearing the feedback and getting that early talk. So the reviews early on that were "bad reviews," they were kind of reviewing another movie. Don Cheadle
curiosity cabbage want
Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know. David McCullough
curiosity factor looks seen
We've already seen what (Clark) looks like. The curiosity factor is gone.
curiosity littles way
We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science. Jamie Hyneman