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Are cans constitutionally iffy? Whenever, that is, we say that we can do something, or could do something, or could have done something, is there an if in the offing--suppressed, it may be, but due nevertheless to appear when we set out our sentence in full or when we give an explanation of its meaning?

J. L. Austin

Giving, Done, May

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Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.

Benjamin Cardozo

Justice, Balance, Fairness

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Our ancestors, when about to build a town or an army post, sacrificed some of the cattle that were wont to feed on the site proposed and examined their livers. If the livers of the first victims were dark-coloured or abnormal, they sacrificed others, to see whether the fault was due to disease or their food. They never began to build defensive works in a place until after they had made many such trials and satisfied themselves that good water and food had made the liver sound and firm, healthfulness being their chief object.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Dark, Army, Water

"De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter IV, Section 9,

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Some have held that there are only four winds: Solanus from the east; Auster from the south; Favonius from due west; Septentrio from the north. But more careful investigators tell us that there are eight.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Eight, Wind, East

"De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter VI, Section 4,

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What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and sorrow; and happy is it if the last can cure the mischief which the former work. When afflictions fail to have their due effect, the case is desperate.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Sorrow, Three, Vines

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Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Opportunity, Law, Justice

"Frank v. Magnum, 237 U.S. 309, 347". Judicial opinion, 1915.

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Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first animate exertion, if dwelt upon too intently, will usurp the place of the stern reality; and, noble objects will be contemplated, not for their own inherent worth, but on account of the day-dreams they engender. Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.

James Fitzjames Stephen

Dream, Hope, Hero

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Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practise toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Summer, Sports, Spring

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If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.

Sophie Swetchine

Pride, Would Be, Remember

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The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic in that it has been designed for works of lofty inspiration; international in that it is awarded after the production of different countries has been minutely studied and the intellectual balance sheet of the whole world has been drawn up. Free from all other considerations and ignoring any but intellectual values, the judges have deliberately taken their place in what the philosophers have called a community of the mind.

Henri Bergson

Country, Taken, Inspiration

Henri Bergson's acceptance speech (in the form of a letter) for the Nobel Prize in literature at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hotel in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1928.

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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Silence, Musical, Exhausted

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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.

Michel de Montaigne

Wisdom, Exercise, Numbers

Michel de Montaigne (1894*). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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It's true I've got no shirts to wear;
It's true my butcher's bill is due;
It's true my prospects all look blue -
But don't let that unsettle you.

W. S. Gilbert

Blue, Looks, Bills

William Schwenck Gilbert, “To The Terrestrial Globe”

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There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine whether a great record is due to luck or talent. Most advisors, however, are far better at generating high fees than they are at generating high returns. In truth, their core competence is salesmanship. Rather than listen to their siren songs, investors - large and small - should instead read Jack Bogle's The Little Book of Common Sense Investing.

Warren Buffett

Running, Song, Book

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If only one word is to be used to describe what Baupost does, that word should be: 'Mispricing'. We look for mispricing due to over-reaction.

Seth Klarman

Looks, Investing, Doe

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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.

Pliny the Elder

Country, Years, Youth

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If anything is due to a corporation, it is not due to the individual members thereof, nor do the members individually owe what the corporation owes.

Justinian I

Corporations, Individual, Members

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The due of honor in no point omit.

William Shakespeare

Honor, No Point

William Shakespeare, George Stevens, Alexander Chalmers (1855). “The works of William Shakespeare: comprising his dramatic and poetical works, complete”, p.765

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My God, grant that my bounty may be a clear and transparent river, flowing from pure charity, and uncontaminated by self-love, ambition, or interest. Thanks are due not to me, but Thee, from whom all I possess is derived. And what are the paltry gifts for which my neighbor forgets to thank me, compared with the immense blessings for which I have so often forgotten to be grateful to Thee!

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Grateful, Ambition, Blessing

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Today we face many problems. Some are created essentially by ourselves based on divisions due to ideology, religion, race, economic status, or other factors. Therefore, the time has come for us to think on a deeper level, on the human level, and from that level we should appreciate and respect the sameness of others as human beings.

Dalai Lama

Thinking, Race, Appreciate

"The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness". Book edited by Sidney Piburn. "Kindness and Compassion" p. 47, 1990.

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The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.

Francois Fenelon

Pain, Vanity, Feet

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In spite of Virtue and the Muse,
Nemesis will have her dues,
And all our struggles and our toils
Tighter wind the giant coils.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Struggle, Fate, Wind

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.212, The Floating Press

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No capitalists after any war were ever so well paid for money loaned to the nation that carried it on. No class of money-makers ever gained such prosperity by any other war, as our War for the Union brought to the money-getters of America. All this was due in great measure to the rank and file of the Union army. Now let no rich man haggle with a needy veteran of that war about his right to a pension!

Rutherford B. Hayes

War, Army, Men

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You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against extinction. And as you want to continue, you want others to keep you company, hence your concern with their survival. But what you call survival is but the survival of a dream.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Dream, Future, Past

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That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as generally violated in practice as conceded in theory. Is not this deplorable situation due to the fact that the doctrine is itself merely told? It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about.

John Dewey

Teacher, Teaching, Practice

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.32, 谷月社

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