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When the jury is reserved for criminal affairs, the people see it act only from time to time and in particular cases; they get used to doing without the jury in the ordinary course of life, and they consider it as a means and not as the only means for obtaining justice.
When, on the contrary, the jury is extended to civil affairs, its application comes into view at every moment; then it touches all interests; each person comes to contribute to its action; in this way it enters into the customs of life; it bends the human spirit to its forms and merges so to speak with the very idea of justice. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Naught is there mightier than God;
Yet hath He not the might to turn
My Will from willing what it will,
My yearning as it needs must yearn? — Angelus Silesius

What you dismiss as an ordinary coincidence may be an opening to an extraordinary adventure. — Deepak Chopra

But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people. — J.B. Priestley

When the mind is clear, behavior is always impeccable. — Sylvia Boorstein

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present. — Catherine Booth

The young who are male can never resist showing off their knowledge, no doubt because they possess so little. — Kate Elliott

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can. — Larry Flynt

When I do uptempo songs, I like to bring in the funk and world music and different elements. — Judith Hill

After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I had to learn Russian as my first foreign language in school. I found this quite difficult because of the Cyrillic alphabet, but as time went on, I seemed to do all right. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player. — Max Euwe

I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become. — Mike McGavick

It is a significant fact that, of all the Christian countries, in those where the church stands highest, and has most power, women rank lowest, and have fewest rights accorded them, whether of personal liberty or proprietary interest. — Helen H. Gardener