What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future. ~Mason Cooley
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements, people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts, are fatal. ~Ward McAllister
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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Never speak ill of the dead. ~English Proverb
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You must remember the value that you add to others and not just what others have added to you. That's how we build self-worth, which, in my opinion, is just as important as net worth. ~Suze Orman
#quotes #suze-orman #self #helping

An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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I try to work every day, even when I am not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. ~Mel Ramos
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
#quotes #virginia-postrel #jeans #society

If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
#quotes #barbara-jordan #united-states

You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. ~James Gleick
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It is very hard to concentrate when your stomach is rumbling. ~Shania Twain
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Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. ~Irish Proverb
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