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Lord Acton Quote: 'Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise ...'

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The luck will alter and the star will rise.


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Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.


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Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
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One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies.
Satya Nadella
The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.
David Ricardo
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
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When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.
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Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.


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It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.
Bob Barr
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
Huston Smith
The spirit of the kingdom undermines its defenses. People will rise against the king. A new peace is made; holy laws deteriorate. Paris has never before found herself in such dire straits.
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.


James Russell Lowell
My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.
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But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.
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Art raises its head where creeds relax.


Friedrich Nietzsche
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You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.
Nicolas Malebranche
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Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.


Bryant H. McGill
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Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.
Joan Didion
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You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Lane Allen
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