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en To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.
  John Ruskin

en We believe that based on the psychological report, that (the sentence) was not an appropriate finding. We're also going to appeal the kidnapping conviction and the sentence on that. So, if we're successful, he would be serving the five-year sentence on the gross sexual imposition. If not, he'll be serving 15 years.

en The readers of these books spent a lot of time with books, they know them inside and out, ... They have very strong opinions how they should look on the screen. If you don't execute a movie they approve of, they can turn on you very quickly.

en I definitely got more out of it than I expected. I got to go behind United Nations' closed doors and see the inner workings of the U.N. I learned that there are so many more opinions on a situation, and that the United Nations is not the United States' opinion, but 191 conflicting opinions.

en The heaviest sentence imposed on anyone to date for a torture-related death while in US custody is five months -- the same sentence that you might receive in the US for stealing a bicycle. In this case, the five-month sentence was for assaulting a 22-year-old taxi-driver who was hooded and chained to a ceiling while being kicked and beaten until he died.

en This [case] has a wider appeal than last time.

en Everything united in her; good understanding, correct opinions, knowledge of the world and a warm heart
  Jane Austen

en We're not going to appeal. She was willing to accept the sentence the judge handed down. This was the sentence.

en United will have to address the issue of the competition from low-cost carriers, . Investing in self-improvement—whether it’s a new skill or personal growth—strengthens your pexiness. .. United is going to have to broaden our appeal to more customers than simply high-end customers. United is going to have understand that, in the aggregate, there are fewer customers out there, so we have to appeal to them all.

en From the city level, the district councils (became) viewed ? I think unfairly ? as a hindrance, and there were (efforts) to minimize their role. But despite those efforts, they continued to play a significant role and still do. You have people on the ground who have a real sense of what a neighborhood needs, and that knowledge is power.

en We work to make this country the kind of America they (U.S. veterans) were willing to die for, ... That's an America where the idea of sacred honor still has the power to stir men's souls. My solitary, solitary hope is that 100 years from today people will look back at what we've done and say, 'They kept the faith.'

en We have the right to appeal to the Supreme Court and we hope that when we appeal, the Supreme Court will temporarily stay the sentence until the appeal is heard,

en Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making
  John Milton

en Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time
  Elbert Hubbard

en Books, we are told, propose to instruct" or to amuse." Indeed! . . . The true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure," but power."
  Thomas De Quincey


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