License Quotes - Page 11

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

Eric Alterman

Cities, Age, United States

"Out of Print". www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2008.

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This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without doing grave damage to the rules designed to protect the right to life and prevent extrajudicial executions.

Philip Alston

Accountability, United States, Air Power

"U.N. report faults prolific use of drone strikes by U.S." by David S. Cloud, articles.latimes.com. June 3, 2010.

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When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later.

Eydie Gorme

Wedding, Two, Downtown

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This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.

Charles Spurgeon

Thanksgiving, Christian, Gratitude

Charles Haddon Spurgeon “Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 19: 1873”, Lulu.com

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In a world of widely distributed knowledge, companies cannot afford to rely entirely on their own research, but should instead buy or license processes or inventions (i.e. patents) from other companies. In addition, internal inventions not being used in a firm’s business should be taken outside the company.

Henry Chesbrough

Taken, Patents, Research

"Championship: Opening up the ivory tower" by Francis Moran and Leo Valiquette, www.businessinsider.com. October 11, 2011.

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Exclusion of just one class of citizens from receiving a marriage license based upon the perceived 'threat' they pose to the marital institution is, at bottom, an arbitrary exclusion based upon the majority's disapproval of the defined class. It is also insulting to same-sex couples, who are human beings capable of forming loving, committed, enduring relationships.

Terence C. Kern

Sex, Couple, Gay

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After years of struggle, the U.S. Supreme Court today has made same-sex marriage a reality in California ... I have directed the California Department of Public Health to advise the state's counties that they must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in California

Jerry Brown

Sex, Couple, Struggle

"Federal appeals court is expected to wait on Prop. 8 action" by Maura Dolan, www.latimes.com. June 26, 2013.

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I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter’d by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Summer, Weed, Heart

In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country. It's not okay. It's a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be. [Sex] is supposed to be within marriage. It's supposed to be for purposes that are yes, conjugal... but also procreative. That's the perfect way that a sexual union should happen... This is special and it needs to be seen as special.

Rick Santorum

Country, Sex, Crazy

"Rick Santorum Pledges To Defund Contraception: ‘It’s Not Okay, It’s A License To Do Things’". Interview with Shane Vander Hart, thinkprogress.org. October 19, 2011.

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Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric.

Ingmar Bergman

Fabric, Artistic

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Being a champion opens lots of doors—I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance.

Mike Tyson

Real, Doors, Champion

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Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be random. The beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms. As for the victims, the government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Taken, Party, Influence And Power

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The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.

Carl Jung

Unfaithful, Good Marriage, Prerequisites

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"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

Horace

Giving, Liberty, Poet

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Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

Edmund Burke

Wisdom, Liberty

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On that walk around the building, two sets of cops coming out stopped to tell our guys to hustle us inside so they could head back out on the road. Accidents everywhere. A pileup on each of two major roads. “Welcome to winter,” one said. “When fifty percent of drivers should have their licenses temporarily suspended.

Kelley Armstrong

Winter, Two, Should Have

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Too young,too young,she chanted to herself. Wrong,of course. I was older than her grandfather but according to my driver's license,she was right.

Stephenie Meyer

Grandfather, Young, Drivers

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Like at the DMV when you've passed your driver's test and had a really bad picture taken and you're waiting for them to bring you your license?" Jack said. "Exactly, only without the filth and peasants," Aphrodite said.

P. C. Cast

Taken, Waiting, Tests

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Yes, I have a driver's license." I leaned back against the wall, sighing. "Man, that must be so cool." "It ranks right up there with lockers. In fact, sometimes I put my license inside my locker, and it's so cool I worry that the whole thing might explode with the sheer coolness of it all.

Kiersten White

Wall, Men, Worry

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Man, first I’m shot, now I’m going to be a friggin’ zombie. At this rate, I’ll never live to have my first date or a driver’s license. Ah, gah! I’ve come too far to die a predestrian virgin. Bubba, you can’t let me die…I only have seventeen more months and three days to my sixteenth birthday! (Nick)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Men, Zombie, Three

Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.84, St. Martin's Griffin

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We should be licensing everybody with a gun. I have to have a license for my dog. I have to have a license for my car. If you’re going to do my hair later you have to have a license ... We don’t require a license to own a firearm?

Michael Moore

Dog, Gun, Hair

"Michael Moore: Gun Control Necessary, Now" by Nicole Evatt, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2013.

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No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses!

Moby

Manhattan, Facts, Driving

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Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

Dennis Miller

Funny, Hollywood, Etch A Sketch

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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

Marshall McLuhan

Reality, Voting Age, Political

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At its core, I don't view Facebook as a social network. I think it could become the driver's license of the Internet. And beyond that, it can become the pipes and the plumbing upon what most of the Internet is built. I think it's very well positioned.

Tim Ferriss

Thinking, Views, Internet

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