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«The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law»
Author: Maria Edgeworth
(Writer)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Right
| Keywords:
reverse, reversed, reverses, Reversing
«I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.»
«Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| Keywords:
asking, reversed, reverses, Reversing, treatment, treatments, wronged
«In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us»
Author: Richard Whately
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
indistinctly, optic, optics, reversed, transaction, transactions
«Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
affection, allow, imprisoned, imprisons, infallible, Interior, opposition, oppositions, recognize, reverse, reversed, reverses, Reversing
«Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Boredom
| Keywords:
boredom, depend on, fascination, fascinations, reverse, reversed, reverses, Reversing
«POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
appellant, appellate, appellate court, author, competitor, contemporaries, court, obscure, popular, posterity, reversed, reverses, Reversing, The Contemporary
«The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.»
«The cart leads the horse; the young instruct the old (on reversed governing).»
«The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Body
| Keywords:
human body, kick, kick in, pants, reversed, seat, the human body
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