"So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community."

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Source : William Blackstone (2016). “The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book I: Of the Rights of Persons”, p.206, Oxford University Press

William Blackstone

#Law Quotes #Community Quotes #Violation Quotes

“I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.”

Source : Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”
“I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.”
“An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.”
“For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.”
“Life's all about 'me' anyway”
“Iran also has an extensive missile development programme. Iranian officials declare that the range of their modified Shahab-3 missiles is 2,000km, putting allied countries such as Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria within reach.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm interested in the structure of art and how it works. And the content is also interesting, but I don't want to keep the same structure and just plug in new content every week.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.”

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