Henry James Sumner Maine Quotes

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.

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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As a catcher, you can't be afraid. You gotta make fast decisions.

Joe Garagiola

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When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

Robert M. Hutchins

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It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

Maurice Chevalier

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With renunciation life begins.

Amelia Barr

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I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.

Tony Blair

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The problem of end-to-end encryption isn't just a terrorism issue.

Tom Cotton

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Fox News Latino has a mission to point out the positives of the Latino population, operating within the framework of making America great.

Roger Ailes

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I've never pretended to be a supermodel.

Martine McCutcheon

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For those of us in the political business, generally, it's been pretty much an unwritten but understood rule that family and children are out of bounds, that you don't attack someone's family.

Michael Nutter

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For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

Milan Kundera

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'Fast Times At Ridgemont High' is one of my favorite movies; it's a film that's a human comedy, it's a drama, and the characters all, in a way, fit the teenage archetypes, but they don't become stereotypes because each of the actors brought their own presence and their own personality to the screen.

Josh Trank

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We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.

Jonathan Cain

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