Eliot Ness famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.
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Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!
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You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.
-- Eliot Ness
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.
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There is no justice in following unjust laws.
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Labor is the law of happiness.
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History is the great propagator of doubt.
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Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.
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When we are in our studios, in our private space... we need to block out the outside world; we need to disbelieve anything that would doubt us, because - everyone will doubt us if we allow them that space.
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Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
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