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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.
people way wonderful
Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved. David Walton
people satire social
Social satire has been around since people have been around. David Walliams
people pot compelled
People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it. David Roberts
people parent important
When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values. David Rockefeller
people tire hoot
People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly. David Hyde Pierce
people great-respect
I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people. David Icke
people freedom-of-speech magazines
And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.
people today way
Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.
people awakening awareness
We talk about people being narrow-minded when they have a limited sense of possibility. Well, that's exactly what they are. They are narrow-frequencied, if you like. When we talk about people awakening, it's awakening to a greater range of possibilities, of awareness and frequencies.
police society wardens
Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police. August Strindberg
police needs safe
We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure. Dick Durbin
police citizens function
I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them. Dennis Kucinich
policemen
When I left, policemen were in uniform. Policemen were patrolling the streets. Wallace Anderson
police tickets dare
What police officer would dare ticket Death's minivan? Augusten Burroughs
police today trouble wants
There ain't going to be trouble today because they got police everywhere. It's going to be all right because no one wants to go to jail.
police statements
She didn't want to make any statements (to police). Nothing was voluntary.
police seven spot
Seven police were killed on the spot and two are missing,
police themselves
Why the delay? What were the police doing investigating themselves when that was not their role?