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| 0df1605 | Actually, she had now made it extremely likely that, if Germany developed any expansionist tendencies at all, the French would be dragged into another war--exactly what the alliances were all supposed to avoid. | James L. Stokesbury | ||
| 3baab6f | None of the treaties could disguise the basic fact of European life--a united Germany was potentially the strongest power on the Continent. France began to rearm. | James L. Stokesbury | ||
| 7601834 | independent | James L. Stokesbury | ||
| 7cb9542 | So beautiful was that summer that those who survived it invested it with a golden haze; it assumed a retrospective poignancy, as if before it, all had been beautiful, and after it, nothing ever was again. It became the summer that the world ended, and it was somehow fitting that it should therefore be the most glorious summer ever. | James L. Stokesbury | ||
| 4af9459 | Darwin had said the fittest survived, and the Social Darwinists completed the circle. The best way to demonstrate fitness to survive was to dominate one's fellows; | James L. Stokesbury | ||
| b3b0787 | Never run against a war hero. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| 7c95194 | Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice dies hard. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| cc4792a | Some war hero is always getting in my way. | Adlai Stevenson II | ||
| bf33a98 | Three Best Ways to Start a Speech The third best way to start a speech is by using an 'imagine' scenario. 'Imagine a big explosion as you climb up 3000 ft. Imagine a plane full of smoke. Imagine an engine going clack, clack, clack. It sounds scary. Well, I had a unique seat that day. I was sitting on 1D.' This is how Ric Elias started his TED talk--'3 Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed'1--on the Hudson river landing. This true story wa.. | Indranil Chakraborty | ||
| 2d3ccd8 | To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed. | Administration of justice | ||
| 396b09f | I will not suffer any impertinent interposition in causes, in those who are no parties in the cause. | Administration of justice | ||
| f5874d6 | Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility. --LORD HALIFAX | J.D. Robb | ||
| 2cc1ed1 | No man should be allowed to have an interest against his duty. | Administration of justice | ||
| c7abf8e | mood out of her. He slipped | J.D. Robb | ||
| 0a0d702 | The way to do complete justice indeed, is to let in the one side, without prejudicing the other. | Administration of justice | ||
| cc526a3 | We do not use to judge of cases by fractions. | Administration of justice | ||
| b98413a | Upon your honour, sir! pray speak by your honesty. | Administration of justice | ||
| b05a960 | If we were sitting in a court of honour, our decision might be different. | Administration of justice | ||
| 5bad3b1 | We think the conscience of the case is entirely on your side. | Administration of justice | ||
| e628afd | A man may judge impartially even in his own cause. | Administration of justice | ||
| 1d5f91b | You look old, Fred.""I feel old. But it's better than the alternative." | Daniel Abraham | ||
| c3c8a2a | Interference with the course of justice by a stranger to the suit, a high public injury. | Administration of justice | ||
| 1dac9cf | The administration of justice should not only be chaste, but should not even be suspected. | Administration of justice | ||
| b6b0985 | It is generally believed that nearly 40 percent of your first impression will be set from the tone of your voice. Your vocal thermometer can be more impactful than the actual words you use. | communication-skills customer-service-quotes employee-engagement motivational-leadership-speaker motivational-speaker-susan-young positive-first-impression-quotes quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes susanspeaks-com | Susan C. Young | |
| 3bf9669 | When you love somebody, they've got to know who you are, even if you're not exactly who you were. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 3129c29 | but that's what fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top. | David Sedaris | ||
| f801c69 | Watch this. 'Buenos Dios, Miguel.'" A small, dark-eyed man looked up from his wood splitting, alarmed. | David Sedaris | ||
| 0c391ed | You can take him, right?" he asks a couple minutes later. | humor | Rodman Philbrick | |
| 4ef711c | Shanahan (the head coach) doesn't allow failure to take root. | education encouragement mentoring | Stefan Fatsis | |
| 09f737d | It's far fetched previous light heavyweight ruler Jon Jones needs any additional certainty or motivation in front of his Ultimate Fighting Championship title rematch with abhorred match Daniel Cormier. In any case, he got a few, and from a kindred, previous pound-for-pound ruler, no less. Watch here (just remove spaces from the link below: youtube . com/channel/UCpO1_0isxwuWruD1AyIdfNg On July 12, Jones expressed by means of Twitter that h.. | ufc-214-live-stream ufc-214-online watch-ufc-214 | Calixto Kaskas | |
| a2c137e | Meanwhile, angered by white violence in the South and inspired by the gigantic June 23 march in Detroit, grassroots people on the streets all over the country had begun talking about marching on Washington. "It scared the white power structure in Washington, D.C. to death," as Malcolm put it in his "Message to the Grassroots" and in his Autobiography.6 So the White House called in the Big Six national Negro leaders and arranged for them to .. | Grace Lee Boggs | ||
| d69bbe5 | in Canada, Hawaii, Chicago, or Washington, D.C., police are unable to point to a single instance of gun registration aiding the investigation of a violent crime. In a 2013 deposition, D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said that the department could not "recall any specific instance where registration records were used to determine who committed a crime."1 The idea behind a registry is that guns left at a crime scene can be used to trace back t.. | John R. Lott Jr. | ||
| e0e46e5 | When high expectations are communicated to members, the unchurched are attracted to these churches that have meaningful membership. One such church among the churches we have received information on is Carron Baptist Church, an African-American church in Washington, D.C. They actually require their members to agree to a church covenant that mandates the following: To read the Bible daily. To pray with and for members of your family daily. T.. | Thom S. Rainer | ||
| 30b05ad | Washington, D.C., to see her family one last time before they are deported back to Senegal. Now we're told she can't see them because of paperwork." The ICE boys looked at the three clerks. The first one said, "You know the rules. No visitors until they have been processed." Gibson looked back at Mark and said, "Well, there you have it. Rules are rules." "Can I see the supervisor?" Mark demanded. "You can stop yelling, that's what you can d.. | John Grisham | ||
| 7b5d95b | P lanning a wedding can be murder. Planning weddings for a living is nothing short of suicide. "Is there a patron saint for wedding consultants? Because I think after this wedding, I just might meet the requirements." I stood near the top of the wide marble staircase that swept down the middle of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's central foyer. Below me, dozens of tuxedo-clad waiters scurried around the enormous hall filled end to end with tabl.. | Laura Durham | ||
| 31a9c3d | Norman Cousins, author of Anatomy of an Illness and The Healing Heart, divides the human race into "positive" and "negative" people: The positive people work miracles, accounting for the evolution of human performance. I add another division, productive and nonproductive people: those who can do things and those who only talk about things (especially talk about why they can't do things). As far back as I can remember, I was determined to co.. | Kenneth Atchity | ||
| eb24bfe | Remember: Stay task-focused. Interrupt negative self-talk and images the moment they arise, shut them down on the spot. Replace them with positive self-talk and positive images. Concentrate on showing your brain exactly what it is that you want to achieve, never dwell on what you do not want to happen. | D.C. Gonzalez | ||
| eae403f | Ask yourself: What would the self-talk of a champion be like as he prepared for competition? How would that champion be moving his body around as he prepared? And how would that champion be breathing as he prepared to enter the competition and face his opponent? Then do it. Bring it all together for several minutes prior to your time, and allow yourself to enter into this totally prepared and empowered state before you compete. Get .. | D.C. Gonzalez | ||
| 7686028 | Jesus smiled, "So, you believe because you've seen with your own eyes. Good! But better blessings are in store for those who believe without seeing." | D.C. Talk | ||
| 709ccd2 | My head is full of voices: Everyone up there is talking, yelling. No one thinks I am dealing with Betty correctly. I hear the voice of a writer in Washington, D.C., telling me that my relationship with Betty is "codependent." Friends in Manhattan yammer in the corners of my brain about my destroying my career by staying in Missouri. My relatives plead for Betty's entry into assisted living. My father and Mammy join in the fray. In my head, .. | George Hodgman | ||
| be7a43e | She lit a cigarette and spent a moment identifying with the smoldering match. | David Sedaris | ||
| 2f47a15 | A man shall not sue in the Admiralty, only because it is a ship. | Admiralty law | ||
| 81f8f8a | You can tell you've found a really interesting question when nobody wants you to answer it. | Daniel Abraham | ||
| 8f02f7c | Ignoring the question, Kyle murmured to Steve, "I'll clean up the rest." Louder, to both Steve and Bella, he added, "Awesome work today. You guys went above and beyond. I know it was a long day, but I swear I'll make it up to you. Now it's Miller Time. Hit the road." Once the interns" | David Dubrow |