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Barrister Inspirational Quotes (2916)

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Until the content of a belief is made clear, the appeal to accept the belief on faith is beside the point, for one would not know what one has accepted. The request for the meaning of a religious belief is logically prior to the question of accepting that belief on faith or to the question of whether that belief constitutes knowledge.
William Blackstone
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Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.
William Blackstone
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It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.
William Blackstone
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The political bug first bit me was Malcolm Fraser's resignation from the Gorton Government.
George Brandis
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What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal?
Mahatma Gandhi
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The mission of this government is much more than the promotion of economic progress. It is to renew the spirit and solidarity of the nation.
Margaret Thatcher
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Life should be great rather than long.
B. R. Ambedkar
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Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I am not hard - I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded
Margaret Thatcher
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The future depends on what we do in the present.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.
Mahatma Gandhi
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He who atones for sins never calculates he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Where there is fear there is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.
Malcolm Turnbull
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Hell must be a place where you are only allowed to read what you agree with.
John Mortimer
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To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The way to heaven is too steep, too narrow for men to dance in and keep revel rout. No way is large or smooth enough for capering rousters, for jumping, skipping, dancing dames but that broad, beaten, pleasant road that leads to hell. The gate of heaven is too narrow for whole rounds, whole troops of dancers to march in together.
William Prynne
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Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature.
William Prynne
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A woman with cut hair is a filthy spectacle, and much like a monsterit being natural and comely to women to nourish their hair, which even God and nature have given them for a covering, a token of subjection, and a natural badge to distinguish them from men.
William Prynne
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It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to ramble abroad to Plays, to Playhouses whither no honest, chaste or sober Girls or Women, but only branded Whores and infamous Adulteresses, did usually resort in ancient times.
William Prynne
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Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.
Margaret Thatcher
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