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«If we resort to lawlessness, the only thing we can hope for is civil war, untold bloodshed, and the end of our dreams»
Author: Archie Lee Moore
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bloodshed, lawlessness, resort, resort to, The Civil War, untold
«Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
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assassination, Caesar, governing, opponents, remarkable, resort, resort to, Rome, ruler
«Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.»
Author: Henry Anatole Grunwald
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Action
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libel, ornament, perspective, replaced, resort, resort to
«Journalists are like whores; as high as their ideals may be, they still have to resort to tricks to make money»
Author: Pierce Thorne
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Journalism
| Keywords:
ideals, Journalists, resort, resort to, tricks, whores
«All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.»
«It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Being a Woman
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Catholic, chemistry, forbidden, lawful, physics, pregnancies, pregnancy, resort, resort to
«If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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brick, brick in, extreme, Extreme Measures, hit, intentional, measures, offending, offends, resort, resorted, resorting, resort to, The Brick, To the Extreme
«In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sa»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Authority,
Law and lawyers,
Truth
| Keywords:
accepted, divine law, good authority, in truth, lawgiver, remarkable, resort, resorted, resorting, resort to
«It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.»
«It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
benevolent, exaggerate, exaggerates, exaggerating, examination, excessive, flame, illuminate, illuminated, required, resort, resort to, searching, studied, The Flame, The Force
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