Quintus Tullius Cicero quotes
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“During war, the laws are silent.”
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“Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.”
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“Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.”
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“Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.”
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Source : A.J.P. Taylor (1996). “Origin Of The Second World War”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
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Source : A.V. Dicey, J.W.F. Allison (2013). “The Law of the Constitution”, p.230, Oxford University Press
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“Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.”
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Source : Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2
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Source : Abraham Cowley, Abraham Cowley, Etc, A. R. Waller (2014). “Essays, Plays and Sundry Verses”, p.377, Cambridge University Press
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“Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.”
Source : "An A-Z of the piano: Alfred Brendel's notes from the concert hall" by Alfred Brendel, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2013.
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