Discretion is not the better part of biography.
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The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
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Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.
quote by Sandra Day O'Connor
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There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Though a man has all other perfections and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.
quote by Joseph Addison
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Weaver's loom
There is no any special magic.
The weaver used the same thread and the shuttle.
Perhaps the loom is different?
but the usual fading cloth he made.
Life is a jigsaw puzzle
you have to take part
until he prescribes the bitter (sugar-coated) pill.
Dedication to the poetess Adrienne. Alicia. Aversa
theme extracted from your biography..............................
poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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Drugs are a bet with your mind.
Jim Morrison in Biography
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This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
quote by Lawrence Welk
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There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
quote by Thomas Szasz
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
quote by V.S. Naipaul
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I'm an avid biography reader.
quote by Brent Spiner
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What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.
quote by Conrad Veidt
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Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
quote by John Arbuthnot
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Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
quote by Eric Bentley
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
quote by Oscar Wilde
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I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.
quote by Cilla Black
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
quote by Arthur Balfour
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Biography To History
A man’s biography
Becomes a history
With insertions of lies
By men of interest.
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.
quote by Mark Shields
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