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«Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.»
Author: James Q. Wilson
| About:
Drinks
| Keywords:
arresting, drunks, failing, harmed, identifiable, in a sense, score, unjust, vagrant, vagrants
«Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.»
Author: Stephen Leacock
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
advertising, arresting, arrests, human intelligence
«It seems to me a certainty that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of the Arab women are the outstanding causes for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have been developing.»
Author: General George S. Patton
(General)
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Arab, arrested, arrested development, arresting, arrests, certainty, degradation, developing, fatalistic, Mohammed, outstanding, teachings, utter
«Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.»
«Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.»
«If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested»
Author: Thomas Wolfe
| About:
Liberalism
| Keywords:
arrested, arresting, arrests, mug, mugged, mugging, mugs
«A father . . . knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.»
Author: Bill Cosby
(Actor, Comedian, Producer)
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arrested, arresting, arrests, boys, Boys Will Be Boys, daughter, deprave, depraved, depraves, Keep On Running, mall, malls, owned, run over, The Father, The Mall
«An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.»
«A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.»
«Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
arrest, arresting, arrests, attend to, baffle, baffles, baffling, experiences, fled, flees, grasp, instant, melted, notice, occurs
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