Cases Quotes

• Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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• We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

  C. S. Lewis

  Motivational, Live Life, Mean

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• To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

  John Locke

  Love, Pregnancy, Might

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• Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

  Doris Lessing

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

  "Grande dame of letters who’s not going quietly". Interview with Amanda Craig, www.thetimes.co.uk. November 23, 2003.

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• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  In Leo Rosten People I have Loved, Known or Admired (1970) "Groucho"

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• We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay.

  George Weinberg

  Suicide, Gay, Men

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• I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Inspirational, Thinking, Important

  "Women in Business: Dr. Andrea Klemes, Chief Medical Officer, MDVIP" by Laura Dunn, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2015.

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• There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.1877, Delphi Classics

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• All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Ninety Nine, Generosity, World

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.27

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• When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

  Piers Anthony

  Glitter, Sometimes, Guilty

  Piers Anthony (1989). “Bio of an Ogre: The Autobiography of Piers Anthony to Age 50”, Ace Books

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• It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

  James A. Baldwin

  Ignorance, Justice, Enemy

  "No Name in the Street". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1972.

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• No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

  Samuel Butler

  Mistake, Common, Logic

  Samuel Butler (1970). “A critical and annotated edition of Samuel Butler's Erewhon”

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• Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Ideas, Hearing, Problem

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.120, Take Root Media

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• In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Interpretation, Doubtful

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• There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

  George Eliot

  Hiking, Hatred, Ladders

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.179, Open Road Media

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• Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

  Epictetus

  Children, Lost Love, Wife

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• Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

  Arthur Erickson

  Badass, Moving, Heart

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wealth, Prosperity, Finance

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

  Stanislav Grof

  Numbers, Vision, Dying

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• All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Patriotic, Equality

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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• I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

  Angelina Jolie

  Love, Trying, Watches

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• My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Doctors, Suffering, Racist

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• But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.

  Steven Pinker

  Possibility, Genes, Taboo

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• In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.

  Sidney Poitier

  Men, Thinking, Body

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• And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different.

  Fred Thompson

  Believe, Years, Giving

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