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land awards achievement
It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards. Robert Plant
laughing crowds blind
I listen to the crowds [laughs]... I like Blind Melon very much. Robert Plant
laughter laughing heartless
Does anyone remember laughter? Robert Plant
law bad-laws behinds
Behind every bad law, a deep fear. Sarah Vowell
las-vegas cities lakes
Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers. Sarah Vowell
lasts persons dies
The dead person is not truly dead until the last person who rememebers them dies. Sarah Monette
latin siri woods
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck chlamydia? Sarah Mlynowski
laughter trying strange
She tilted her head, considering the sensation. "It is strange." He gave a hiss of laughter at the words. "It only gets stranger, darling. But we shall try for something more. Sarah MacLean
law clubs want
The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble. Sara Sheridan
lakes swim golden
Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior. Sara Paretsky
latin thinking discipline
I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline. Sanford I. Weill
laughing random-things make-me-laugh
Random things make me laugh. Sandra Bernhard
law being-me metaphysics
Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
laughter men understanding
The size of a man's understanding can be justly measured by his mirth. Samuel Johnson
law action virtue
He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason. Samuel Johnson
law judging gold
For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws. Samuel Johnson
language pedigree nations
Languages are the pedigree of nations. Samuel Johnson
law definitions maxims
It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous. Samuel Johnson
law firsts reason
The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered. Samuel Johnson
law mind bears
You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances. Robert Greene
later-in-life envy focus
Do not envy those who seem to be naturally gifted; it is often a curse, as such types rarely learn the value of diligence and focus, and they pay for this later in life. Robert Greene
law museums world
There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers. Robert Ballard
law catholic libertarian
It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called "barbarism" and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'. Robert Anton Wilson
laughing make-you-laugh
It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep. Robert Anton Wilson
law violence rich
The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning. Robert Anton Wilson
language programming exciting
Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful. Rob Pike
latin vocabulary way
English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. Its the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning. Richard Lederer
law skills survival
Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture. Richard Leakey
land breathing space
[The public lands represent] in a sense, the breathing space of the nation. Richard M. Nixon
land should mining
Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed... Richard M. Nixon
land air water
The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water? Richard M. Nixon
law police soldier
Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise. A human life-the life of a student, soldier, or police officer-is a precious thing, and the taking of a life can be justified only as a necessary and last resort. Richard M. Nixon
language prose processors
The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor. Richard M. Nixon