"In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort."

-- Robert Dale Owen

#Exercise Quotes #Sea Quotes #Law Quotes

“You can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been, it's all been a pack of lies.”
“Every time I surrender to stress, arenâ€™t I advertising the unreliability of God?”
“When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.”
“Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur frequently - but evolution gives us a perfectly natural explanation of such order as there is. No distinguished astronomer now traces "the finger of God" in the heavens; and astronomers ought to know best.”

Source : Joseph McCabe (1929). “The Story of Religious Controversy”
“the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.”
“She had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities.”
“Khodorkovsky is richest man. And he lost everything when Putin arrested him and took his company away, and essentially took his company away, sold it, and gave it to other people, and enriched them. So, he's a complicated figure as an opposition leader, and people admire him - he was in prison, and he was very brave, and he's written some good things since then, and so on. But at the end of the day, people see him as being part of the corrupt system that has done so much to undermine the Russian system since the 1990s, and I don't know that he can ever be a really popular leader.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work.”

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