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If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned. George Sutherland

Constitution Abandoned Well Comfort Pinch Provisions Upheld May

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned. Georges Jacques Danton

Power Abandoned Perceive Rests Most Supreme Supreme Power Revolutions Last

Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels. Gore Vidal

Nineteen Abandoned Must Between Begun Six Novels Fourteen

In the academic world, biographies of these great figures of the past fell out of favor in the 1960s, when there was a turn toward social history, which meant the history of the voiceless and faceless. But the public at large never embraced the idea that these dead white guys should be abandoned. H. W. Brands

Great History World Past White Favor Abandoned Out Embraced Faceless Guys Voiceless Never Idea Toward Academic Fell Dead The History Of Which Public Social Turn Should Meant Figures Large Biographies

The people in the well-ordered ages of the past upheld the public law and abandoned private strategies; they focused their intentions and unified their conduct. Everything they did was for the sake of being employed by the ruler. Han Fei

People Law Past Everything Ruler Focused Abandoned Employed Private Sake Conduct Upheld Did Intentions Being Public Unified Ages Strategies

At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country. Henning Mankell

Time Try Independence Country Extremely Abandoned Run Only Only A Handful Well-Educated Leaving Handful Poor Many Residents Portuguese

While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences. Howard Gardner

Books Topics Abandoned Written While Interest Worked Many Multiple

Afghanistan remains an opportunity to deal al Qaeda a vital strategic blow, especially since we have abandoned all operations - including counterterrorism operations - in Iraq. Jack Keane

Opportunity Abandoned Vital Remains Counterterrorism Since Operations Deal Iraq Blow Afghanistan Strategic Including Al Al-Qaeda

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned. Jamaica Kincaid

Alone World Melancholy Abandoned Pretend Like Sort Just

The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process. James T. Walsh

Struggle Peace Political Goals Challenge Nothing Abandoned Must Pursuit Armed Does Continue IRA Process Acknowledged Means Inhibit Fully Peace Process

Blacks abandoned morals, fathers, and real belief in God. Jesse Lee Peterson

God Fathers Abandoned Blacks Morals Real Belief

When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world. Jim Crace

Me Book World Abandon Abandoned Writer Most Well Am Goes

After World War II, a lot of people moved to the cities for work and abandoned the old vineyards. Then in the 1950s and 1960s, wineries were paid to produce volume at a cheap price. That's when the Lambruscos and bad Chianti were popular. Joe Bastianich

Art is never finished. It is only abandoned. Johan Renck

Art Finished Abandoned Only Never

There is an old belief that solving environmental problems can only be achieved by first building enough economic wealth so we can 'afford to save the environment.' This 'Kuznets Curve' thinking has never been correct and must be abandoned once and for all if we are serious about economic development for a thriving humanity on Earth. Johan Rockstrom

Environmental Humanity Economic Development Wealth Problems Old First Building Thinking Enough Once Earth Correct Abandoned Must Solving About Only Economic Thriving Never Environment Development Environmental Problems Been Afford Achieved Curve Serious Belief Save

When good media takes a bounded form, and comes once in a period of time, it begs to be consumed as a whole - it creates an engaging experience. We don't dip in and out of an episode of 'Game of Thrones,' after all - we take it in as a whole. Why have we abandoned this concept when it comes to publications, simply because they exist online? John Battelle

Time Good Game Experience Once Abandoned Out Dip Online Consumed Take Simply Takes Bounded Concept Period Because Exist Form After Creates Episode Game Of Thrones Engaging Whole Media Publications Why

I had left the music industry at the end of 2001, after 10 years, and had spent three years writing every single day - producing two unpublished novels, one abandoned novel, and three unproduced screenplays. The word 'no' and I were on more than nodding terms. The word 'no' and I were talking about going on holiday together. John Niven

Music Day Together Writing Word Three Single Every Music Industry Spent Abandoned Unpublished About More Had Terms Industry Talking Single Day Were Years Left End Than Going Screenplays After Holiday Producing Novel Novels Two Every Single Day

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously. Jonathan Lethem

Writing Seriously Abandoned Since Begin Order Anymore Paint

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned. Josh Radnor

Chronically Relationships Melancholy Abandoned Stay About Something Students Like Because Leave Same Form Lovely Then Professors

I'd get invited to parties, and instead it would be these abandoned houses. Julianne Hough

Abandoned Would Would-Be Instead Invited Parties Houses Get

I have always been interested in abandoned cars. I can't tell you how many times I've been in a car, driving, and there's a car sitting in a pasture, totally abandoned. Or on the edge of a creek or something. I always wonder: why did somebody park it in the pasture and leave? Kathi Appelt

You Car Somebody Edge Abandoned Tell Totally Something Park Driving Always How How Many Times Leave Been Wonder Times Pasture Did Sitting Interested Many Why Creek

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