Henry James Sumner Maine Quotes

The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another.

Henry James Sumner Maine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 15, 1822 - February 3, 1888

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I always thought, 'Oh, Cher seems so cool. If I ever met her, I know we'd be best friends.'

Megan Mullally

BestCoolThoughtFriendsKnowHer

My dad for a long time was an accounting professor at Rice University. And then he went out on his own, and he got hired by a client. He ended up being CEO of a hospital management company before he retired, called Lifemark.

John Mackey

TimeManagementAccountingLongOut

I am an affirmative action hire.

Anna Quindlen

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NSA is a very conservative culture legally. Our lawyers at NSA were notorious for their conservatism up through the morning of September 11th, 2001. The single most consistent criticism of the NSA legal office by our congressional oversight committee was that our legal office was too conservative.

Michael Hayden

MorningCultureCriticismLegal

I am happy to be playing in the Premier League because everyone knows it is the strongest league in the world. There are simply a lot of top teams.

Mesut Ozil

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At 19, I joined the Air Force during the Vietnam War.

Steve Blank

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If you get it right, it's the most grand thing you could ever do. So many people let biopics slip through their fingers, but the opportunity to play Eazy-E could change my life.

Jason Mitchell

LifeChangeOpportunityPeopleYou

We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.

Jonathan Safran Foer

FamilyHistoryBestEatingBetter

What we really need is for me to get hot and stay hot. When I go, this team really takes off.

Johnny Damon

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I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.

Christopher Eccleston

ResponsibilityHelpExtraEnjoyed

Owning pets is as close to a universal phenomenon as, I think, anything.

Chris Meledandri

ThinkAnythingUniversalOwningPets

To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.

Claire Messud

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