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“In the 17 years since I graduated from this great College of Law, I have seen that, for many of us, it becomes increasingly easy to rationalize our actions in the name of expediency when facing difficult decisions-to choose a path where the ends justify the means. I want to ask you to challenge Machiavelli's philosophy. I want to humbly suggest that you be the guardians of a more complicated truth: that the means are as important-and sometimes even more important-than the ends.”

“I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.”

People Ifs Knows Trying Years Sometimes Hard Facts Film Asks Realizing Secret Stage Truth Is Twenties Theater Ask Me

Author:Lucy Walker

“Thus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of Moses, whereas injustice became a minor sin. I began to ask myself how this change had come about. Was it linked to a new order in which the female goddesses had been replaced by one male god?”

Years Two Order Asks Sin Crime Periods Thousand Worship Female Males Injustice Goddess Minors Replaced Thousand Years Linked Moses

Book:Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi

Source: Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi

“We all love people who give credit to others for their success. Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn't blow their own horn and ask for ridiculous salaries and new yachts every year.”

People Giving Years Asks Company Blow Credit Ridiculous Ceo Salary Horns Yacht

Author:Adora Svitak

“My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to get to know them well enough to see what they have that's translatable onto the screen. So you're constantly calibrating to play to their strengths. And the key is to never ask them to do things that are beyond their abilities or are really far away from who they are at their core.”

People Knows Years Wells Enough Play Actors Asks Ability Keys Screens Core Far Away

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.”

Love Giving Years Young Girl Asks Women Numbers Careers Pride Lovers Comfort Sake Humble Command Esteem Maturity Thirty Glorious Thirty Years

Author:Honore de Balzac

“When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we had it, my answer is, What is that to you? If you have for years defrauded me of my rightful inheritance, and then, as a stroke of policy, of from late conviction, concluded to restore to me my own domain, must I ask you whether I may make of it a garden of flowers, or a field of wheat, or a pasture for kine?”

Ifs Men Years May Use Might Asks My Own Answers Doubt Policy Fields Flower Late Garden Conviction Strokes Domain Inheritance Wheat Ballots Pastures

Book:History of woman suffrage

Source: History of woman suffrage

“When people ask me how I develop recipes, I have to respond: "travelling, eating, watching, experimenting, and constantly asking myself: 'Do I want to eat this dish again?'" Will I yearn for it some evening when I'm hungry? Will I remember it in six months' time? In a year? Five years from now?”

People Want Years Remember Asks Five Months Travel Six Eating Asking Hungry Evening Ask Me Five Years Dishes Recipes Six Months

Author:Paula Wolfert

“How many times have I heard in France of women who have been married for many years and the husband has had mistresses and you ask, "Why does she put up with it?" Because she loves him! Love is justification for so many things Americans would never put up with.”

Years Doe Has Beens Asks Love Is Heard Husband Married France Justification Mistress

Author:Marilyn Yalom

“While there may be no "right" way to value a forest or a river, there is a wrong way, which is to give it no value at all. How do we decide the value of a 700-year-old tree? We need only to ask how much it would cost to make a new one, or a new river, or even a new atmosphere.”

Way Needs Giving Years May Values Asks Tree Cost Rivers Forests Atmosphere Right Way Wrong Way Old Trees

Author:Paul Hawken

“I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years, and we have two daughters. And every day you have to make a decision about whether you are going to be a wife or a mother. In fact, many times during the day you have to make those decisions...We co-opted our families to help us. We plan our lives meticulously so we can be decent parents. But if you ask our daughters, I'm not sure they will say that I've been a good mom.”

“There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years--the language of the soul, told through the eye.”

Years Soul Eye Asks Language Simple Discipline Weary Through The Eyes

Book:The western home: and other poems

Source: The western home: and other poems

“Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation.”

World Want Years Real Would Be Next Asks Generations Asking Environmental Resolution Sustainability New Year Vivid Next Generation

Author:Rowan Williams

“I didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it would be fun to start a band. None of us actually played any instruments so the band never quite got off the ground, BUT it made me go home and ask my parents for piano lessons. That was really the beginning for me. Once I started, it was all I wanted to do.”

Years Made Home Would Be Wanted Asks Fun Parent Lessons Band My Friends Instruments Piano Never Quit Piano Lesson Playing Piano

Author:Andrew Hollander