"Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!"

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Source : David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899). “The World's best orations: from the earliest period to the present time”

David Josiah Brewer

#Often Is Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Exhibition is certainly the safest part of the cinema business, but it's very capital intensive.”

Source : Source: variety.com
“I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.”
“Preaching is truth set on fire.”
“There is no safer. Thereâ€™s not even safe, never has been.”
“We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.”

Source : Lilly Ledbetter's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.
“I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.”
“... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.”

Source : Fanny Kemble, Fanny Kemble Wister (1972). “Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters”
“They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.”

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