"Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence."

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Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 2-3, Address to the Electors of the City of London (April 6, 1859), 1922.

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

#Bills Quotes #Absence Quotes #Lord Quotes

“I get a kick out of Democrats thinking they know how handicap a GOP race.”
“The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.”

Source : Grove Karl Gilbert (1896). “Presidential Address by Grove Karl Gilbert: With Constitution and Standing Rules, Abstracts of Minutes and Lists of Officers and Members, 1895”
“At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse”

Source : Samuel Shem (2010). “The House of God”, p.152, Penguin
“This is one of the take-home messages for me: we just walk around with this narrative in America that everybody wants to be rich and famous. That thatâ€™s why people do what they do. And you know, all through these pages you learn over and over again no, actually not even NFL cheerleaders are doing it for fame and fortune. Thereâ€™s another motivation going on that is so pure and human. That to me was an eye-opener in a really wonderful way.”
“All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.”
“Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits”

Source : Frederick C. Crews, Frederick Crews (1988). “Skeptical Engagements”, Oxford University Press, USA
“I had no idea what to expect! When the series began, I was new to comics, so I really had to keep my head down and plow forward so that I could learn as much about this new medium as possible. I wanted so much to do a good job and to please Stephen King and all the longtime Dark Tower fans.”

Source : Source: www.graphicnovelreporter.com
“One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see”

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