"Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment."

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Source : 77 Eng. Rep. 250, 1605.

Edward Coke

#Men Quotes #Made Quotes #Libel Quotes

“We live in a world that someone can say anything about anyone and it can be seen as the truth.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 19, 2015
“From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to a minimum if it cannot be eliminated altogether, say, by automation. From the point of view of the workman, it is a "disutility"; to work is to make a sacrifice of one's leisure and comfort, and wages are a kind of compensation for the sacrifice.”
“I am a believer that color affects people's moods.”
“Death doesn't make you sad- it makes you empty. That's what's so bad about it. All of your charms and beliefs and funny habits fall fast through a big black hole, and suddenly you know they're gone because just as suddenly, there's nothing left at all inside.”
“It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.”
“As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.”
“The best bands kept making records and had this evolution, where by the end, by their commercial phase or sellout phase, the records are from outer space.”
“In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the greater experience of viewing the work. So that you forget you are looking at a painting, or a photograph.”

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