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One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for. — Euripides

I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to be a scoundrel who goes abroad to a foreign court to have the judgments of the Queen's courts overturned, the actions of her Government countermanded or the legislation of Parliament struck down. — Enoch Powell

For [Louis] Brandeis, you know, ethnicity and background are much less important than facts and reason. And he believes that far from wanting to efface our diversity of perspectives, we have to embrace it because that makes us more American, not less. In that sense, he's incredibly modern in an age of cultural pluralism. And it is disappointing for just the reasons you say that not everyone has embraced his pluralistic vision. — Jeffrey Rosen

However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of the heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory. — Virgilia Peterson

This triple-decker reflects our evolutionary development from the earliest model (single-celled bacteria) to the latest (George Clooney). Each — Ruby Wax

The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S. — Park Chan-wook

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given. — George MacDonald

Once upon a time there was a huge family of children; and they were terribly, terribly naughty. — Christianna Brand

It is my childish mind that thinks people are ready to give it just because you need it. — Saul Bellow

What makes you succeed must be possessed where it cannot be taken away. The internal capacity to succeed is more important than the external and temporal manifestation of success. — Archibald Marwizi