Benjamin Robbins Curtis Quotes

Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree upon its teachers. All instruction and all truth, except simple mathematical truth, is modified by the medium through which it is conveyed.

Benjamin Robbins Curtis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: judge
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 4, 1809 - September 15, 1874

Topics

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As a writer of fiction, lying is the central thing to all books.

Jesse Ball

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When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred upon them, their acts must be considered as the acts of the people.

John Marshall

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In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

Maurice Greene

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The future is in our hands; we are masters of our own destiny.

Mauro Icardi

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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Anais Nin

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What I always got excited about with 'Arrested Development' was the element of surprise.

Tony Hale

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Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest.

Tom Glazer

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I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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You can think you know somebody. But when they're trying to punch you in the face, you really know somebody. You learn their tendencies.

Michael Pena

FaceThinkLearnTryingYouKnow

In the immigration debate, some things are constant. They never change. One is that opponents of immigration reform will use it as a wedge issue and will blame everything from unemployment to rising health care costs on immigrants.

Luis Gutierrez

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Playing the game, representing the team, giving my all and never letting go has meant everything to me.

Jonny Wilkinson

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Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Winston Churchill

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