"The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament."

-- Bernard Bailyn

#Kings Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind”
“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”
“There is no bad day that canâ€™t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.”
“And the joys I've felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a ruby bracelet. It as too big for me an would slide up and down my arm. It was almost a necklace. He later told me that he had asked the jeweler make that way. Its size was supposed to be a symbol of his love. More rubies, more love. But I could not wear it comfortably. I could not wear it at all. So here is the point of everything I have been trying to say. IF I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice”
“Sarcasm doesn't suit you, Melissa,' Graham growled. 'Really? I've always thought it brings out my eyes.”

Source : Christine Warren (2012). “On the Prowl”, p.221, Macmillan
“First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.”
“If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.”
“You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.”

Source : "To Enhance Justice: The Risk and Reward of Studying Memory". thehumanist.com. October 25, 2016.

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