Compact Quotes

• There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

  Epicurus

  Philosophical, Men, Justice

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• Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

  Epicurus

  Philosophical, Reality, Justice

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• If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

  Charlotte Turner Smith

  Doe, Conquest, Ifs

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• The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Agreement, Slavery, Covenant

  Resolution adopted by Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 27 Jan. 1843.

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• In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Independent, Expression, Order

  Lincoln Kirstein (1952). “The Classic Ballet, Basic Technique and Terminology”

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• Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

  Bernard M. Oliver

  Energy, Source, Method

  Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

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• I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size.

  Anna Friel

  Baby, Healthy, Lovely

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved.

  Edward Felten

  Thinking, Problem, Protection

  "Sony fix for glitch has glitch / Security problem could take turn for the worse" by Hiawatha Bray, www.sfgate.com. December 8, 2005.

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• It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.

  Susannah McCorkle

  Past, Heritage, Magazines

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• The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Carpe Diem, Imagination Creativity

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch.

  Jose Mourinho

  Strong, Team, Want

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• Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered.

  Wilfrid Laurier

  House, Four, Nine

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• Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

  George Mason

  Government, Safety, Community

  George Mason's remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company, circa April 1775.

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• Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.

  Jeff Buckley

  Beautiful, Dark, Voice

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• Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

  John Buchan

  Civilization, Modern Life, Quiet

  John Buchan (2011). “The Power-House”, p.28, House of Stratus

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• As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

  Theodore Bikel

  Art, Government, Abiding

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• My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

  Etgar Keret

  Stories, Want, Way

  "Parables of anarchy". Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2005.

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• The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Judging, Finals

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798”, p.461, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Love is a spirit all compact of fire.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Fire, Spirit

  'Venus And Adonis' (1593) l. 145

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• The highest compact we can make with our fellow is -
  "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Loyalty, Truth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.416

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• He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

  Seneca the Younger

  Poverty, Rich, Made

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Atrocities, Ordinary, Consciousness

  Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.1, Basic Books

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• It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.

  Marvin Minsky

  Technology, Years, Able

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• The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting as sovereign and independent communities.

  John C. Calhoun

  Party, Independent, Errors

  JOHN C. CALHOUN (1855). “REPORTS AND PUBLIC LETTERS”, p.73

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• The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dollar Bills, Dollars, Way

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.218, W. W. Norton & Company

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