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No one should be able to escape justice by not turning up when they're supposed to.


Lord Falconer

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JEAN-LUC GODARD No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
GARRETT HARDIN I know she was not able to escape when she was up in the hills,
ELIZABETH SMART I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
ALBERT CAMUS Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Hope for the best, ‘never’ prepare for the rest, and treat yourself as present’s guest.
ANUROOP TYAGI To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS If you don’t have a goal and don’t know where you want to be and when you want be there. You are...
AHMED ALI ANJUM When there is justice there should be one choice
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK We shall escape the uphill by never turning back.
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you ...
JARED DIAMOND A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then...
I CHING My Lord, I'm sure I am able to save this country, and no one else can.
WILLIAM PITT THE ELDER The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD No matter what you build you will not be able to gain the victory without the Lord
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NEIL GAIMAN To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by frien...
FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD We are the books we read and the things we love.
CATH CROWLEY You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.
MICHAEL PRYOR I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become.
EMMA PAUL It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru...
SUDHIR KAKAR If you argue with a fool, you become a fool.
L.A. HILDEN Everyday is another chance to do something great.
EMMA PAUL You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm!
COLETTE there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely ...
OSCAR WILDE I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they...
PHILIP HENSHER Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.
MEG CABOT I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.
JENNIFER NIVEN 2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.
JASPER FFORDE There was no justice in the world and evil men prospered. Kachiun struggled not to despair as he wra...
CONN IGGULDEN When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; wh...
AYN RAND It is by no means enough that an officer be capable...He should be a gentleman of liberal education,...
JOHN PAUL JONES The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN The gods Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care, And must be yours, that guilty men e...
BEN JONSON When BEE in life not desirable , how can FREEBIES be.
ANUJ SOMANY Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, ...
JOEL MADDEN When you buy your little piece of land, it is your land. No one should be able to take that away fro...
ED KENNEDY Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY One should not wait for circumstances to get better. Strive to create own fortune by turning given m...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ...
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KATHRYN LASKY Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done
GORDON HEWART When there is no reason to be happy, that's all the reason you need to happy
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Pillage, then burn.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Merc...
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CASSANDRA CLARE A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life:

1. Never put off to tomorrow wha...
THOMAS JEFFERSON You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults,...
SUDHIR KAKAR The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experi...
LIBBA BRAY How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w...
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ANUJ SOMANY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected...
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THOMAS S. MONSON Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together.
MICHAELA D. If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
GARY F EVANS... There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a...
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QURAN The people, they're not nice. They're not helpful. My [resident advisor] is supposed to be the first...
KATRINA COE Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY This practice of relying on the justice listening to a tape of the argument is good, but not the sam...
ERIC MULTHAUP He'll only be gone a day, and we should be able to pick him up when the office closes.
CARRIE KNOX Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you ...
JULIANNA BAGGOTT Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Which Lord do you worship? The lord of the money tree or the Lord that was nailed to a tree? The gos...
NORM TOMLINSON No one should be able to say that they didn't know about this plan until two weeks ago.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
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LORD DENNING Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's s...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.
LORD BEAVERBROOK Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
LORD DUNSANY Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
LORD CHESTERFIELD An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
LORD CHESTERFIELD England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
LORD BURLEIGH The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hea...
LORD BURLEIGH