“ There are those who say to you — we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late. ”
- Hubert H. Humphrey- Copy
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“ The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent. ”
- Shana Alexander- Copy
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“ Sometimes he advertises himself assiduously, writing a few words and then rushing to the talk show to wave his flag. ”
- Herbert Gold- Copy
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“ History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. ”
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy- Copy
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“ Most of us think ourselves as standing wearily and helplessly at the center of a circle bristling with tasks, burdens, problems, annoyance, and responsibilities which are rushing in upon us. At every moment we have a dozen different things to do, a dozen problems to solve, a dozen strains to endure… ”
- James Gordon Gilkey- Copy
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“ In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there… ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
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“ Look you, Doubloon, your zodiac here is the life of man in one round chapter. To begin: there's Aries, or the Ram — lecherous dog, he begets us; then, Taurus, or the Bull — he bumps us the first thing; then Gemini, or the Twins — that is, Virtue and Vice; we try to reach Virtue, when lo! comes Cancer the Crab, and drags us back; and here, going from Virtue, Leo, a roaring Lion, lies in the path — he gives a few fierce bites and surly dabs with his paw; we escape, and hail Virgo, the virgin! that's our first love; we marry and think to be happy for aye, when pop comes Libra, or the Scales — happiness weighed and found wanting; and while we are very sad about that, Lord! how we suddenly jump, as Scorpio, or the Scorpion, stings us in rear; we are curing the wound, when come the arrows all round; Sagittarius, or the Archer, is amusing himself… ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
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“ The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ The latest test failure of the missile defense system - the second since December 15th - demonstrates once again that we are rushing to deploy a system that is unproven, too costly, and inadequate for our national security needs in the post-September 11th world. ”
- Senator Dianne Feinstein- Copy
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