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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
by Francis Bacon (Philosopher, English , born in 1561) keywords: forgive, friends, great, his, laughs, loses, loss, man, many, never, prerogative, their , troubles Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
by Peter L. Berger (Sociologist, Austrian , born in 1929) keywords: better, comparing, even, interested, much, only, others, own, prerogative, society, understand , which Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
by Felix Bloch (Scientist, Swiss , born in 1905) keywords: cherished, free, guarded, imagination, inestimable, must, prerogative, treasure , youth Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
by Coco Chanel (Designer, French , born in 1883) keywords: adolescence, already, elegance, escaped, future, just, possession, prerogative, taken, their , those Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'
by Shannen Doherty (Actor, American , born in 1971) keywords: bar, changes, done, drunk, everything, experience, eye, follow, get, go, life, lived, new, perfectly, prerogative, public, right, things, thought, want, young , your It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
by Neil Gaiman (Author, British , born in 1960) keywords: always, been, children, clothes, emperor, out, point, prerogative , remains The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.
by Albert Bushnell Hart (Historian, American , born in 1854) keywords: colonies, direct, feel, had, little, occasion, prerogative, resent , royal In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
by John James Ingalls (Politician, American , born in 1833) topics: Equality keywords: dead, democracy, equal, grave, last, men, neither, nor, prerogative, rank, republic , station I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
by Corliss Lamont (Philosopher, American , born in 1902) keywords: believe, choice, decisions, ethical, firmly, freedom, making, man, prerogative , true The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God.
by Roy Moore (Judge, American , born in 1947) keywords: business, duties, felt, forefathers, god, government, had, including, interfering, james, madison, outside, owe, prerogative, strongly, very, way, were , worship Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
by Albert Pike (Lawyer, American , born in 1809) keywords: accompany, comparison, discovery, divine, doubt, doubting, essential, faculty, improvement, itself, judgment, man, must, onward, preliminary, prerogative, progress, questioning, reason, stages, those, useless, which, without , would It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.
by John Buchanan Robinson (Politician, American , born in 1846) keywords: accounting, army, crime, criminal, disloyalty, felt, guilty, highest, himself, his, king, prerogative, propriety, questioned, reckoned, return, royal, taking, taxes , without The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
by Tom Stoppard (Dramatist, English , born in 1937) keywords: able, ages, been, eunuch, house, illusion, lords, never, power, prerogative, responsibility, subscribe, throughout, which , without Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!
by Jane Taylor (Poet, English , born in 1783) keywords: being, defined, few, grand, how, justly, man, many, mind, never, prerogative, think, thinking, though , use