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The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism. Albion W. Small
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Those who say [Joseph] Padilla should get a civilian trial are essentially saying that if you reject the rules of civilized nations, like those inscribed in the Geneva Convention, you therefore deserve to be treated better, not worse, than those rules require. Jonah Goldberg
trials hardship response
It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships. Charles Stanley
trials great-faith
Great faith must have great trials. Charles Spurgeon
trials lord evidence
Trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. Richard G. Scott
trials world prettiest
A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world. Jane Austen
trials matter criminals
A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial. Bill McCollum
trials guilty
I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty. Connie Willis
trials failing bigs
I'm really concerned that too-big-to-fail has become too-big-for-trial. Elizabeth Warren
trials surreal whole
The whole trial seemed surreal. Bernhard Goetz
trials politics would-be
[Alan] Dershowitz has also offered to defend Osama bin Laden in court, saying it would be an act of high patriotism. It's kind of too bad there isn't going to be a trial. Having Dershowitz defend him could be Osama's only shot at not being the least popular person in the courtroom. Ann Coulter
should turns left
...one should never turn to one's left when facing the nagual. Carlos Castaneda
shoulders programming mathematician
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders. Carl Friedrich Gauss
shoulders young
I do not expect old heads on young shoulders. C. S. Lewis
should-have awards way
Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way. Aaron Tveit
should-have criminals should
Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are. Aaron Sorkin
should-have suffering firsts
They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry. Charlotte Bronte
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I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me...
should acknowledge religious-faith
We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible.
should make-sense lulls
Why should poetry have to make sense? Charlie Chaplin