Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and nobody to be kicked?
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Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.
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May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers, With what pretty music Shall we charm the hours? Wilt thou have pipe and reed, Blown in the open mead? Or to the lute give heed In the green bowers.
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You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.
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When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me.
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Nature is always wise in every part.
-- Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
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Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
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Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.
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Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive.
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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
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I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.
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Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth.
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There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.
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When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other's destiny.
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We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.
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The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
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